valse
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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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