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sinkapace

sinkapace is the archaic 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 sinkapace

pluralsinkapaces

Questions about sinkapace

What is sinkapace the archaic form of?
Sinkapace is the archaic form of cinque-pace.

Words near sinkapace in the dictionary

  1. sinkages
  2. sinkaline
  3. sinkankasite
  4. sinkant
  5. sinkants
  6. sinkapace
  7. Sinkatulan
  8. sinkbox
  9. sinkboxes
  10. Sinke
  11. sinked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sinkapace (page history and authors); cinque-pace (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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