minuet
小步舞曲,小步舞,小型步舞曲,小步舞步舞
Definitions
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- : a slow, stately dance in triple meter, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- : a piece of music for such a dance or in its rhythm.
Examples
All along, the atomic minuet with Tehran has been built on assumptions—ours and theirs—that are, as it turns out, erroneous.
And “Visiting”—about a father-son road trip to Narragansett, R.I.—is a prickly minuet of paternal longing.
The first was the private, then public, minuet of reassurances to the two visitors.
Frivolity enveloped the company as with a silken veil, and yet everything moved as politely and as sedately as a minuet.
The hedges are shaped into peacocks, and not unfrequently into ladies and gentlemen dancing a minuet.
Harlequin had recruited a columbine and a shepherdess, and he introduced these ladies as partners for the promised minuet.
They tell me she walks through mathematics like a young duchess through the minuet.
I had never seen the minuet danced with more grace and spirit.