coranto
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of coranto
1615–25; earlier carranta < Italian cor ( r ) anta < French courante courante
Example Sentences
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"Or if ye will, the little maid will dance the coranto for you, straight from my Lord Chancellor's dancing-master; and while she dances I will sing."
From Master Skylark by Bennett, John
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
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
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 Green, John Richard
They no more think of weaving whole paragraphs or chapters into complex harmonies, than an ordinary pedestrian of 'going to church in a galliard and coming home in a coranto.'
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
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