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cinquepas

cinquepas 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 cinquepas

pluralcinquepases

Questions about cinquepas

What is cinquepas the alternative form of?
Cinquepas is the alternative form of cinque-pace.

Words near cinquepas in the dictionary

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

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