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minuet en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From French menuet, from menu (“small”) + -et (“diminutive”), from Latin minutus (“very small”).

Meanings

1. A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupé, a high step, and a balance.
2. A tune or air to regulate the movements of the minuet dance: it has the dance form, and is commonly in 3/4, sometimes 3/8, measure.
3. A complete short musical composition inspired by and conforming to many formal characteristics of the traditional musical accompaniment to the dance of same name.
4. A movement which is part of a longer musical composition such as a suite, sonata, or symphony which is inspired by and conforming to formal characteristics of the dance of same name.

Forms

Deriveds

minuetish · minuetic · minuetlike

Translations (45)

de Menuett (dance) · hu menüett (dance) · nn menuett (music accompanying the dance) · mk менуе́т (dance) · el μενουέτο (dance) · nb menuett (dance) · pl menuet (music accompanying the dance) · pt minueto (music accompanying the dance) · de Menuett (music accompanying the dance) · ru менуэ́т (dance) · ca minuet (dance) · tl minwe (dance) · nl menuet (dance) · ru менуэт (music accompanying the dance) · el μενουέτο (music accompanying the dance) · ro menuet (dance) · cs menuet (dance) · fr menuet (music accompanying the dance) · sv menuett (music accompanying the dance) · hu menüett (music accompanying the dance) · ca minuet (music accompanying the dance) · es minueto (music accompanying the dance) · it minuetto (dance) · cs menuet (music accompanying the dance) · nb menuett (music accompanying the dance) · ro menuet (music accompanying the dance) · sv menuett (dance) · mk менуе́т (music accompanying the dance) · pt minueto (dance) · bg менует (dance) · tl minwe (music accompanying the dance) · is menúett (music accompanying the dance) · ja メヌエット (dance) · fi menuetti (music accompanying the dance) · es minué (music accompanying the dance) · nl menuet (music accompanying the dance) · nn menuett (dance) · fi menuetti (dance) · is menúett (dance) · es minué (dance) · pl menuet (dance) · fr menuet (dance) · es minueto (dance) · ja メヌエット (music accompanying the dance) · zh 小步舞曲 (music accompanying the dance)

minuet en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From French menuet, from menu (“small”) + -et (“diminutive”), from Latin minutus (“very small”).

Meanings

1. To dance a minuet.
   • After he had raved his time upon the stage, the ladies and knights again minueted for an hour, and again gave place. 1838, William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger, A Voyage Round the World, page 318:
   • This set the pattern for four years, as the two monarchs minueted around the vast Commonwealth, never again to face each other personally in battle. 2001, Tony Sharp, Pleasure and Ambition: The Life, Loves and Wars of Augustus the Strong, page 185:
   • Within the same circle with the pigeons, were beautiful albatrosses, poising and minueting with them in the most pleasing fellowship. 1840, “An Officer of the U. S. Navy,”, in Around the World: A Narrative of a Voyage in the East India Squadron, Under Commodore George C. Read, page 163:

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