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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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,
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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
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
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)
It is a good beast for carrying a burden or trampling down a foe, but a very indifferent one at a lavolta or a coranto.
From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Cary, Henry Francis
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