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cinque-paces

cinque-paces is the plural of cinque-pace.

Meaning of cinque-pace

Noun

cinque-pace (plural cinque-paces)

  1. (obsolete) A lively dance, the galliard, whose steps were regulated by the number five.
    • For, hear me, Hero: wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly-modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes Repentance, and with his bad...1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Questions about cinque-paces

What is cinque-paces the plural of?
Cinque-paces is the plural of cinque-pace.

Words near cinque-paces in the dictionary

  1. cinque
  2. cinque buchi
  3. Cinque Port
  4. Cinque Ports
  5. cinque-pace
  6. cinque-paces
  7. Cinquean
  8. Cinquecentism
  9. cinquecentist
  10. cinquecentists
  11. cinquecento

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