Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stately 16th-century dance in duple meter.
- noun Music The music for this dance, often used as the first movement of a suite.
- noun A lively dance of the mid-18th century in triple meter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music, the first movement after the prelude in a suite.
- noun A German dance in 3/4 time, resembling the older style of waltz, and often so called.
- noun A German national dance in lively 2/4 time.
- noun A figure in dancing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) 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.
- noun A figure in dancing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A popular
instrumental dance form inBaroque music, and a standard element of asuite , generally the first or secondmovement .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun egg-thickened veloute
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
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En finale, elle a épelé correctement stromuhr, mot d'origine allemande qui désigne un instrument de mesure de la quantité de sang qui s'écoule par unité de temps dans un vaisseau sanguin.
Archive 2010-07-01 Rene Meertens 2010
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Just as they profited from deregulation so did the banks -- change partners allemande, right!
From Haymarket to Ludlow from Harlen to Matewan from Mother Jones to You 2009
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I agree with murgadroid, square dancing notation. "swing yer partner, do-si-do, allemande left and come back slow..."
Mystery Pictographs James Gurney 2009
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À l'approche des Allemands et avec la signature à Rethondes de la convention d'armistice franco-allemande le 22 juin 1940, les Rochelais sabotent ou détruisent de nombreuses installations afin qu'elles ne tombent pas aux mains de l'occupant.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Basel: 1922; Une allemande à Paris (A German Woman in Paris).
Claire Goll. 2009
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February 29, 2008 at 10:34 am but teh gigue, allemande, corante adn bouray are dance musik!
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Un blocage identique à celui vécu pendant mon apprentissage de la langue allemande!
Linking Flickr Images in Thesis’ Multimedia Box — Climb to the Stars 2008
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January 11th, 2006 at 9: 53 am tip says: allemande rosary wintered susceptible devoutly canners
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LEXPRESS.fr - Sarkozy et Merkel relancent la coopération franco-allemande - L'Express
Sarkozy & Merkel - kissing cousins Oleg Kuzin 2007
treeseed commented on the word allemande
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
noun
Usage: often capitalized
Etymology: French, from feminine of allemand German
Date: 1685
1: a musical composition or movement (as in a baroque suite) in moderate tempo and duple or quadruple time
2 a: a 17th and 18th century court dance developed in France from a German folk dance b: a dance step with arms interlaced
February 6, 2008
treeseed commented on the word allemande
In square dancing allemande is a series of moves where dancers face their corners and turn around each other 360 degrees, dropping the handhold at the end as the dancers rejoin their respective partners. A lot of people in square dancing spell this "alamand." The caller usually calls out "allemande left" or "allemande right".
February 6, 2008
Sargee7 commented on the word allemande
Allemande is a word used in American square dancing. In square dancing, the caller will call out "Allemande your partner", and the dancers link arms at the elbow and rotate.
June 25, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word allemande
egg-thickened veloute
June 27, 2010