allemande

Borrowed from French allemande (“German (dance)”).

allemande (plural allemandes)

1. A popular instrumental dance form in Baroque music, and a standard element of a suite, generally the first or second movement.
   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 33:

     […] sweet to us it is to behold delightful dancing, be it the stately splendour of the Pavane which progresseth as large clouds at sun-down that pass by in splendour; or the graceful Allemande; or the Fandango, which goeth by degrees from languorous beauty to the swiftness and passion of Bacchanals dancing on the high lawns under a summer moon that hangeth in the pine trees; or the joyous maze of the Galliard; or the Gigue, dear to the Foliots.

• (instrumental dance form): allemanda, almain, alman

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allemande (third-person singular simple present allemandes, present participle allemanding, simple past and past participle allemanded)

1. To perform this dance.
   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:

     The gaudy splashes of lightning made it seem that some weird dance was going on, one where you threw your partner into the nearest tree instead of allemanding her, or dug your knee into his crotch instead of doing a do-si-do.

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allemande

1. feminine singular of allemand

allemande f (plural allemandes)

1. allemande (dance)

• → English: allemande

• “allemande”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

allemande f pl

1. plural of allemanda