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alamande

alamande is the alternative form of allemande.

Meaning of allemande

Noun

allemande (plural allemandes)

  1. A popular instrumental dance form in Baroque music, and a standard element of a suite, generally the first or second movement.
    • […] sweet to us it is to behold delightful dancing, be it the stately splendour of the Pavane which progresseth as large clouds at sun-down that pass by in splendour; or the graceful Allemande; or the Fandango, which goeth by degrees from languorous beauty to the swiftness and passion of Bacchanals...1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 33
    Synonyms:
    allemanda, almain, alman

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Forms of alamande

pluralalamandes

Questions about alamande

What is alamande the alternative form of?
Alamande is the alternative form of allemande.

Words near alamande in the dictionary

  1. Alamada
  2. alamak
  3. Alaman
  4. Alamance
  5. Alamance County
  6. alamande
  7. alamandes
  8. alamandine
  9. Alamanni
  10. Alamannia
  11. Alamannian

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