coranto
Americannoun
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corantos,
plural
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corantoes
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
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 M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
"And the brantle and the coranto?" asked the duchess.
From The Touchstone of Fortune by Charles Major
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 Ernest Rhys
She would play with her rings that her courtiers might note the delicacy of her hands; or dance a coranto that an ambassador, hidden dexterously behind a curtain, might report her sprightliness to his master.
From History of the English People, Volume IV by John Richard Green
In 1625 was issued the first coranto with a name, 'printed for Mercurius Britannicus'.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Montague Summers
New books every day, pamphlets, corantoes, stories, whole catalogues of volumes of all sorts, new paradoxes, opinions, schisms, heresies, controversies in philosophy, religion, &c.
From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
"He danced with thee four galliards, nine quadrilles, and twenty-three corantoes, I think, child," the mother said, eluding her daughter's remark.
From Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray
They bid us to the English dancing-schools, And teach lavoltas high, and swift corantos; Saying our grace is only in our heels, And that we are most lofty runaways.
From King Henry V by William Shakespeare
Then they all together dance 'measures, corantos, and galliards,' till Phosphorus the day star appears and calls them away— To rest!
From The History of London by Sir Walter Besant
They don’t understand sarabands and corantos; and you can’t play jigs.”
From The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War by George Manville Fenn
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