pavan
- a variation of pavane.
Example Sentences
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But this sweet and yearning six-minute pavan, written for an ensemble of viols, and the title track on the gorgeous new recording of the Ricercar Consort, bridges centuries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
A fantasia and a pavan and galliard by William Byrd were riveting.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 15, 2017
The Lord Chancellor is not introduced as Harlequin, and does not dance a pas seul with "Mr. Solicitor," founded upon some of the more intricate steps of the pavan, or peacock's strut.
Kings, princes, and 'Seigneurs graves,' in dancing the pavan on great occasions, wear their 'grands manteaux, et robes de parade.'
From Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries by Naylor, Edward W. (Edward Woodall)
Paduan, pad′ū-an, adj. and n. belonging to Padua: one of the clever imitations of old Roman bronze coins made at Padua in the 16th century: a Spanish dance, the pavan.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
