coranto
Americannoun
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corantos,
plural
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corantoes
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of coranto
1615–25; earlier carranta < Italian cor ( r ) anta < French courante courante
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"And the brantle and the coranto?" asked the duchess.
From The Touchstone of Fortune by Charles Major
There was not a woman at the Louvre who had my complexion, nor one who could walk a coranto with more grace.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
"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 John Bennett
Why dost thou not go to church in a galliard and come home in a coranto?
From Twelfth Night; or What You Will by William Shakespeare
Is it companionship, do you think, for me to look on while she walks a coranto or tosses shuttlecocks with De Malfort?
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
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
They bid us to the English dancing-schools, And teach lavoltas high, and swift corantos; Saying our grace is only in our heels, And that we are most lofty runaways.
From King Henry V by William Shakespeare
They don’t understand sarabands and corantos; and you can’t play jigs.”
From The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War by George Manville Fenn
Then they all together dance 'measures, corantos, and galliards,' till Phosphorus the day star appears and calls them away— To rest!
From The History of London by Sir Walter Besant
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