coranto

American  

[kuh-ran-toh, -rahn-, koh-] / kəˈræn toʊ, -ˈrɑn-, koʊ- /

noun

plural

corantos, corantoes

1. courante.

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coranto British  

/ kɒˈræntəʊ /

noun

1. a variant of courante

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Etymology

Origin of coranto

1615–25; earlier carranta < Italian cor ( r ) anta < French courante courante

Example Sentences

I would give value to behold the execution of a coranto and inspect the steps of a cinque-pace, having assurance that the performances assuming these names were veritably identical with their memorable originals.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales by Bierce, Ambrose

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 A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest

It seems the sort of thing a poet so habited might be expected to say between a galliard and a coranto.

From Gossip in a Library by Gosse, Edmund

A student of Shakspere, I had learned something of every dance alluded to in his plays, and hence partially understood several of those I now saw—the minuet, the pavin, the hey, the coranto, the lavolta.

From Lilith, a romance by MacDonald, George

I was afraid that you preferred the light and trivial coranto to the graceful saraband.”

From The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War by Fenn, George Manville