coranto
Americannoun
PLURAL
corantos, corantoesnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of coranto
1615–25; earlier carranta < Italian cor ( r ) anta < French courante courante
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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 Project Gutenberg
Coranto, ko-rant′o, n. a rapid and lively kind of dance.
From Project Gutenberg
So Elizabeth danced And the guest was entranced As she tripped the Coranto, and curtseyed and swayed In a robe of rich stuff, Jewelled slashings and ruff, And a stomacher stiff, thick with pearlings and braid.
From Project Gutenberg
She would dance a Coranto, that the French Ambassador, hidden behind a curtain, might report her sprightliness to his master.—Greene.
From Project Gutenberg
Time in Holland is a foolish old fellow with all the antics of a youth, who "goes to church in a coranto, and lights his pipe in a cinque-pace."
From Project Gutenberg
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
