corantoes
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pluralof coranto.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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New books every day, pamphlets, corantoes, stories, whole catalogues of volumes of all sorts, new paradoxes, opinions, schisms, heresies, controversies in philosophy, religion, &c.
From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
"He danced with thee four galliards, nine quadrilles, and twenty-three corantoes, I think, child," the mother said, eluding her daughter's remark.
From Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray