coranto
Americannoun
plural
corantos, corantoesnoun
Etymology
Origin of coranto
1615–25; earlier carranta < Italian cor ( r ) anta < French courante courante
Example Sentences
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It seems the sort of thing a poet so habited might be expected to say between a galliard and a coranto.
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Why dost thou not go to church in a galliard and come home in a coranto?
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I confess that I was uneasy, for Frances was a country girl, and the coranto was the most trying, though, if well done, the most beautiful of all dances.
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Sir Andrew thinks himself "old in nothing but in understanding," and boasts that he can cut a caper, dance the coranto, walk a jig, and take delight in masques, like a young man.—Shakespeare,
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Is it companionship, do you think, for me to look on while she walks a coranto or tosses shuttlecocks with De Malfort?
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