coranto
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Etymology
Origin of coranto
1615–25; earlier carranta < Italian cor ( r ) anta < French courante courante
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Sir Andrew thinks himself "old in nothing but in understanding," and boasts that he can cut a caper, dance the coranto, walk a jig, and take delight in masques, like a young man.—Shakespeare,
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
M'sieu spoke dreadful English, but danced like the essence of agility, and taught both Nick and Cicely the latest Italian coranto, playing the tune upon his queer little pochette.
From Master Skylark by Bennett, John
The little beast has taught me a new step in the coranto.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
Wherefore are these things hid? wherefore have these gifts a curtain before them? why dost thou not go to church in a galliard, and come home in a coranto?
From Twelfth Night or, What You Will by Kemble, J P
It seems the sort of thing a poet so habited might be expected to say between a galliard and a coranto.
From Gossip in a Library by Gosse, Edmund
"He danced with thee four galliards, nine quadrilles, and twenty-three corantoes, I think, child," the mother said, eluding her daughter's remark.
From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace
New books every day, pamphlets, corantoes, stories, whole catalogues of volumes of all sorts, new paradoxes, opinions, schisms, heresies, controversies in philosophy, religion, &c.
From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert
They don’t understand sarabands and corantos; and you can’t play jigs.”
From The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War by Fenn, George Manville
They bid us to the English dancing-schools, And teach lavoltas high, and swift corantos; Saying our grace is only in our heels, And that we are most lofty runaways.
From King Henry V by Shakespeare, William
Then they all together dance 'measures, corantos, and galliards,' till Phosphorus the day star appears and calls them away— To rest!
From The History of London by Besant, Walter, Sir
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