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cinquepace

cinquepace is the alternative form 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]...

Forms of cinquepace

pluralcinquepaces

Questions about cinquepace

What is cinquepace the alternative form of?
Cinquepace is the alternative form of cinque-pace.

Words near cinquepace in the dictionary

  1. cinquedea
  2. cinquedeas
  3. cinquefoil
  4. cinquefoiled
  5. cinquefoils
  6. cinquepace
  7. cinquepaces
  8. cinquepas
  9. Cinquera
  10. cinques
  11. cinquillo

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