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valse

American  
[vals] / vals /

noun

French.
valses plural
  1. waltz.


valse British  
/ vals /

noun

  1. another word, esp used in the titles of some pieces of music, for waltz

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That's what Ravel wrote on the first page of La valse.

From The Guardian • Aug. 29, 2012

The Ziegfeld Follies of 1919 brought forth A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody; 1924 saw both the tenderly brooding What'll I Do? and the valse triste All Alone.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some French businessmen refer to the U.S. practice of shifting executives from job to job and country to country as la valse des directeurs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Says precocious Prokofiev: "At six I wrote down myself a valse . . . and I composed a march for four hands when I was seven."

From Time Magazine Archive

Violet sank on a seat after her valse.

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

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