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单词 coranto
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coranton.1

/kəʊˈrɑːntəʊ//kəʊˈrantəʊ/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s couranto, chora(u)nto, 1600s corranto, caranto, caronto, carranto, carranta, 1600s–1700s curranto.
Etymology: Ultimately from French courante lit. ‘running (dance)’; either a modification of the French word itself, assimilated to words of Italian and Spanish origin in -o (compare coranto n.2), or immediately < Italian coranta , corranta ‘a kinde of French dance’ (Florio), an Italian adaptation of the French. The French form was itself adopted somewhat later: see courante n.
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

Forms: Also 1600s corranto, curranto(e, coranta, caranto.
Etymology: A variant of courant n.2, modified in form in the same way as coranto n.1
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.
attributive.a1652 R. Brome Court Begger ii. i. sig. P2v, in Five New Playes (1653) I..stood..at the Coranto-shop to read the last great news.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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