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n. A stately 16th-century dance in duple meter.

n. Music A composition written to or as if to accompany this dance, often used as the first movement of a suite.

n. A lively dance of the mid-18th century in triple meter.

n. A popular instrumental dance form in Baroque music, and a standard element of a suite, generally the first or second movement.

n. A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.

n. A figure in dancing.

n. In music, the first movement after the prelude in a suite.

n. A German dance in 3/4 time, resembling the older style of waltz, and often so called.

n. A German national dance in lively 2/4 time.

n. A figure in dancing.

n. egg-thickened veloute

"The old women give the signal for action; two of the youngest girls take their places in the middle of the room, and begin to dance a kind of allemande, while the rest of the women sing national songs, and keep time in driving their knives into the trough."

sauce   

alamand    alamande   

almain    allemanda    alman   

l'armee    vainement    termine    rentre    attendait