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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And he taught me the new Versailles coranto.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
The little beast has taught me a new step in the coranto.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
"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
Why dost thou not go to church in a galliard and come home in a coranto?
From Twelfth Night; or What You Will by Shakespeare, William
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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