paven

Noun

pavane (plural pavanes)

1. A musical style characteristic of the 16th and 17th centuries.
   • […] if the men should not agree what to play, but one would have a grave Pavane, another a nimbler Galliard, a third some frisking toy or Iigg, and then all of them should be wilful, none yield to his fellow, but every one scrape on his own tune as loud as he could: what a hideous hateful noise may...1656, Robert Sanderson, Twenty Sermons, London: Henry Seile, Sermon 13, p. 267
2. A moderately slow, courtly processional dance in duple time/meter.
   • Why then be merry; be merry, or I’le be
     Out of humour, and then who shall dance the Pavan
     With Ossorio?1664, Thomas Porter, The Carnival, London: Henry Herringman, act II, scene 1, page 25

   Synonyms:

   Paduan

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