allemande
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French allemande (“German (dance)”).
Noun
allemande (plural allemandes)
- A popular instrumental dance form in Baroque music, and a standard element of a suite, generally the first or second movement.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
instrumental dance form
Verb
allemande (third-person singular simple present allemandes, present participle allemanding, simple past and past participle allemanded)
- To perform this dance.
- 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
- The gaudy splashes of lightning made it seem that some weird dance was going on, one where you threw your partner into the nearest tree instead of allemanding her, or dug your knee into his crotch instead of doing a do-si-do.
See also
French
Pronunciation
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Adjective
allemande
Noun
allemande f (plural allemandes)
- allemande (dance)
Descendants
- → English: allemande
Further reading
- “allemande”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Italian
Noun
allemande f pl