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orchesographies

orchesographies is the plural of orchesography.

Meaning of orchesography

Noun

orchesography (usually uncountable, plural orchesographies)

  1. (usually) An enhanced form of choreography that includes details of the music to accompany the dance
    • Some years ago, Thoinot Arbeau, a dancing-master of Paris, gave an orchesography, wherein all the steps and motions of the dance are written or noted down, as the sounds of a song are scored in music.1826, Charlotte Matilda Hunt, The Little World of Knowledge, Arranged Numerically. Designed for Exercising the Memory, and as an Introduction to the Arts and Sciences, History, Natural Philosophy...

Questions about orchesographies

What is orchesographies the plural of?
Orchesographies is the plural of orchesography.

Words near orchesographies in the dictionary

  1. orchats
  2. orchel
  3. orchella
  4. orcheocele
  5. orchesis
  6. orchesographies
  7. orchesography
  8. orchester
  9. orchesters
  10. orchestic
  11. orchestics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orchesographies (page history and authors); orchesography (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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