valse

American  

[vals] / vals /

noun

French.

• valses
  plural

1. waltz.

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valse British  

/ vals /

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• valses
  plural

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

valse valses

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

From The Guardian ● Aug. 29, 2012

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

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

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

For by this time the quadrille has come to an end, and a valse has struck up.

From Doctor Cupid by Rhoda Broughton

Yes, unchanging spaces, unchanging yesterdays, and a ship's orchestra dropping little valses into the dark sea.

From Erik Dorn by Ben Hecht

However, Jim showed the way with Mrs. Sartoris, and the whole party were soon whirling away to the strains of the "Zingari" valses.

From Belles and Ringers by Hawley Smart

Her compositions include a piano concerto, a piano quartette, and a number of excellent smaller works, such as an impromptu, two meditations, six petits morceaux, and some valses for two pianos.

From Woman's Work in Music by Arthur Elson

It is with Chopin valses and Liszt rhapsodies that a pianist plays an audience into a hall, but he should put on some stuff to play the audience out with.

From The So-called Human Race by Bert Leston Taylor

He catches it, throws it back to the fair group, and valses off with his partner.

From Routledge's Manual of Etiquette by George Routledge

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