coranto
Americannoun
plural
corantos, corantoesnoun
Etymology
Origin of coranto
1615–25; earlier carranta < Italian cor ( r ) anta < French courante courante
Example Sentences
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And he taught me the new Versailles coranto.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
Wherefore are these things hid?... why dost thou not go to church in a galliard, and come home in a coranto?
From Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries by Naylor, Edward W. (Edward Woodall)
The coranto is a difficult movement to perform gracefully.
From The Touchstone of Fortune by Major, Charles
Wherefore are these things hid? wherefore have these gifts a curtain before them? why dost thou not go to church in a galliard, and come home in a coranto?
From Twelfth Night or, What You Will by Kemble, J P
It is a good beast for carrying a burden or trampling down a foe, but a very indifferent one at a lavolta or a coranto.
From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Cary, Henry Francis
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