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chacony

chacony is the obsolete form of chaconne.

Meaning of chaconne

Noun

chaconne (plural chaconnes)

  1. A slow, stately Baroque dance.
  2. The music for such a dance, often containing variations on a theme.

Forms of chacony

pluralchaconies

Questions about chacony

What is chacony the obsolete form of?
Chacony is the obsolete form of chaconne.

Words near chacony in the dictionary

  1. chaconine
  2. chaconines
  3. chaconne
  4. chaconnes
  5. Chacons
  6. chacony
  7. chacos
  8. chacotriose
  9. chacram
  10. chacrams
  11. chacrona

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chacony (page history and authors); chaconne (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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