coranto

[ kuh-ran-toh, -rahn-, koh- ]

/ kəˈræn toʊ, -ˈrɑn-, koʊ- /

noun, plural co·ran·tos, co·ran·toes.

courante.

Nearby words

Origin of coranto

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

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Examples from the Web for coranto

She would dance a Coranto, that the French Ambassador, hidden behind a curtain, might report her sprightliness to his master.
Provocations|Sibyl Bristowe
Why dost thou not go to church in a galliard, and come home in a coranto?
Hazlitt on English Literature|Jacob Zeitlin
Even the Pope (I speak in all reverence) must play billiards or trip a coranto now and then!
Shandygaff|Christopher Morley
I thought Sir you wou'd have been more open-handed, I sell no Coranto's at such rates.
The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life|Anonymous

Morley speaks of the Volte, and says it is characterised by 'rising and leaping,' and is of the same 'measure' as a coranto.
Shakespeare and Music|Edward W. Naylor

British Dictionary definitions for coranto

coranto

/ (kɒˈræntəʊ) /

noun plural -tos

a variant of courante

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