单词 | coranto |
释义 | † coranton.1 Obsolete exc. Historical. 1. A kind of dance; the same as courante n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > lively dances > [noun] > courante coranto1564 courante1586 quarante1604 1564 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 313 Paid to Mr. Attkynson for stayynge the choraunto..xxs. 1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia sig. B6v Excuse This quick Couranto of my merry Muse. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Courante, a Curranto. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. v. 33 They bid vs to the English Dancing-Schooles, And teach Lauolta's high, and swift Carranto 's. View more context for this quotation 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 75 Without regarding ought save Cupids Currantoes. 1651 J. Ogilby Fables of Æsop Paraphras'd (1665) 136 How stately move in a Coranto. 1692 J. Salter Triumphs Jesus 24 The skipping Mountains in Choranto dance. 1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant 284 A sort of Country-Dance or Couranto, danc'd by Pairs. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 383 He..suffered the fair owner to ransom the rest by dancing a coranto with him on the heath. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §3. 363 She would play with her rings..or dance a coranto. 2. A tune in triple time used for accompanying this dance; = courante n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > dance music > [noun] > dances used as part of suite Almain1591 jig1593 coranto1597 courante1597 saraband1631 allemandec1639 minuet1678 gigue1685 gavotte1696 minuetto1724 giga1730 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke iii. 120 A Curranta plaide in the newe proportions by them latelie found out. 1668 T. Shadwell Sullen Lovers i. 6 Torments me with a damn'd Coranto, as he calls it, upon his Violin. 1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music IV. iii. i. 387 The Coranto..is a melody or air consisting of three crotchets in a bar, but moving by quavers. 3. attributive, as coranto movement, coranto pace (the latter also transferred = ‘a very swift pace’). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > [noun] > on foot > a swift pace coranto pace1602 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida ii. sig. C3v (stage direct.) Running a Caranto pase. a1627 T. Middleton More Dissemblers besides Women v. i, in 2 New Playes (1657) 68 But away rid I Sir, put my horse to a caranto pace. 1652 W. Sancroft Mod. Policies sig. D1 You heare so much of Curranto in the Application. 1782 W. Mason Coll. Anthems xxxvi I cannot be persuaded that he..ever admitted Coranto or Gavot movements. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † coranton.2 Obsolete. A letter or paper containing public news; a gazette, news-letter, or newspaper; = courant n.2 ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] intelligencer1598 courant1621 coranto1624 paper1642 mercury1643 newsletter1665 newspaper1667 slip1688 raga1734 news1738 gazetteer1742 sheet1754 news sheet1841 spread1848 linen-draper1857 newsprint1897 blat1932 linen1955 mimeo newspaper1973 1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) Democritus to Rdr. 3 New bookes euery day, pamphlets, currantoes, stories. 1625 J. Mede in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 209 I send you a Corranto..it was well aired and smok't before I received it, as our Lettres all used to be. a1635 R. Corbet Poems (1807) 140 Corantoes, diets, packets, newes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.11564n.21624 |
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