Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A 16th-century court dance characterized by short advances and retreats.
- noun Music The second movement of the classical baroque suite, typically following the allemande.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music An old
French dance from the lateRenaissance and theBaroque era in triple metre. - noun music The second movement of a
baroque suite (following theallemande , and before thesarabande )
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a court dance of the 16th century; consisted of short advances and retreats
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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My patient puppy darted out of the path of our wild courante.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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My patient puppy darted out of the path of our wild courante.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Nowadays, I think it's been taken over by “avoir la courante” which is precisely - to have “the runs” (such realistic expressions!)
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Nowadays, I think it's been taken over by “avoir la courante” which is precisely - to have “the runs” such realistic expressions!
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Trackbacks: une erreur courante — Climb to the Stars
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Trackbacks: une erreur courante by Stephanie Booth on 02.03.2006
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Malgr les avantages qu'il semble prsenter pour cet usage, le ferrociment n'est pas utilise de faon courante pour les toitures.
Chapter 13 1973
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With the Stuarts came the wild courante or corante --
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various
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A mon avis, la traduction informatique intégrale va devenir monnaie courante, et elle permettra de communiquer à la base avec davantage de gens.
Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert
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Traitées par des systèmes informatiques spécifiques, les données (lexicales et textuelles) portent sur divers registres du français: langue littéraire (du 14e au 20e siècle), langue courante (écrite et parlée), langue scientifique et technique (terminologies), et régionalismes.
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