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coranto
[ kuh-ran-toh, -rahn-, koh- ]
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I thought Sir you wou'd have been more open-handed, I sell no Coranto's at such rates.
Morley speaks of the Volte, and says it is characterised by 'rising and leaping,' and is of the same 'measure' as a coranto.
Whitelocke and Hyde were two of the principal managers, and the former wrote for it his celebrated Coranto.
Even the Pope (I speak in all reverence) must play billiards or trip a coranto now and then!
Then Charles, with ready grace, would begin the coranto, taking a single lady in this dance along the gallery.
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