mazurka
noun
a lively Polish dance in moderately quick triple meter.
mazourka
-
a variation of
mazurka.
Example Sentences
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If he plays it in the same manner in which he accompanied "True Happiness," you will hear how this mazourka should not be played.
From Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances by Mary P. Nichols
"And here's my piano, too, and open!" she finished gaily, dropping herself upon the piano stool and dashing into a brilliant mazourka.
From Miss Billy by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
Now do play at once the F sharp minor mazourka, opus 6.
From Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances by Mary P. Nichols
Cracovienne′, a graceful Polish dance, resembling the mazourka: the music for such; Crac′owe, a long-toed boot fashionable under Richard II.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Lightly at the door, Cassy strung the words to a mazourka.
From The Paliser case by Edgar Saltus
