pavan

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See also: pǟvan, Pavan, and Pǟvan

English

Noun

pavan (plural pavans)

  1. Alternative form of pavane (musical style and dance).
    • 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter V, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 274:
      And he tasted in the language of memory ambered wines, dying fallings of sweet airs, the proud pavan: and saw with the eyes of memory kind gentlewomen in Covent Garden wooing from their balconies with sucking mouths and the pox fouled wenches of the taverns and young wives that, gaily yielding to their ravishers, clipped and clipped again.

Swedish

Noun

pavan

  1. definite singular of pava

Venetan

Adjective

pavan (feminine singular pavana, masculine plural pavani, feminine plural pavane)

  1. Paduan

Noun

pavan

  1. Paduan (dialect)