farandole
Americannoun
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a lively dance, of Provençal origin, in which all the dancers join hands and execute various figures.
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the music for this dance.
noun
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a lively dance in six-eight or four-four time from Provence
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a piece of music composed for or in the rhythm of this dance
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Etymology
Origin of farandole
1860–65; < French < Provençal farandoulo, perhaps a conflation of b ( a ) randello with same sense, derivative of brandà to move, rock (< Germanic; see brandish) and flandrinà to dawdle, ultimately derivative of Flandres Flanders
Example Sentences
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Said Archbishop Joachim Ndayen of the Central African Republic: "We didn't come thousands of kilometers to dance a farandole."
From Time Magazine Archive
After the lights went up, Lacroix joined the crowds and danced the farandole, the heels-up peasant dance of Provence.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the celebrations at the Fonvieille fete, he actually led the farandole.
From Letters from my Windmill by Daudet, Alphonse
As for the farandole, I tire last of all—and it is the biniou who cries out for mercy!”
From The Maids of Paradise by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
Every now and then there would be a ronde or a farandole,—the farandole forcing its way through the crowd, every one carrying a lantern and looking like a brilliant snake winding in and out.
From My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 by Waddington, Mary Alsop King
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