单词 | allemande |
释义 | allemanden. 1. a. Any of various German dances; esp. a court dance in moderate duple time, considered to be German in origin or style, which is performed in couples and characterized by frequent holding or touching of hands. Cf. Almain n. 2a. Now historical.Recorded earliest in attributive use, as allemande leap. Cf. Almain leap n. at Almain n. and adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > lively dances > [noun] > allemande Almain?1566 allemande1728 1591 T. Nashe in Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella Pref. sig. A.4 Nor hath my prose any skill to imitate the Almond leape verse. 1728 J. Essex tr. P. Rameau Dancing-master i. xxxix. 104 When you have made several [springs or hops] together, as in the Allemande, you make your Springs or Hops together without rising on one single Foot. 1748 Lady Featherstonhaugh Let. in Mem. Ld. Gambier (1861) I. ii. 24 The German girls very prettily dressed, dancing Allemande dances with their uncouth men. 1788 A. Gordon Cauld Kail in Aberdeen in Aberdeen Mag. 6 Nov. 699 The Spaniards dance fandangos well, Mynheer an all'mand prances. 1826 Blackw. Mag. 19 549 A room full of Swiss whirling in their favourite Allemande. 1830 Calcutta Mag. May 280 It would be very amusing to see the two Bears dance the allemande together. 1979 M. Fonteyn Magic of Dance (1980) 20 All this was eroded by the waltz, and..by an eighteenth-century dance called the allemande, in which the couples held each other's hands continuously. 2010 K. L. Smith Pop. Dance 30 The many handholds and intertwined positions of the allemande began a dance revolution. b. Esp. in square or country dancing: a dance step in which adjacent dancers facing in opposite directions link arms, touch, or hold hands, and make a full or partial turn. Also: a step in which one partner turns the other while holding or touching hands. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > movements or steps > [noun] > figure > figures in quadrilles and country-dances allemande?1770 reel1804 pastourelle?1814 poussette1814 pastorale1822 ladies' chain1825 poussetting1836 tour1841 grand chain1864 first set1894 ?1770 G.-A. Gallini New Coll. 44 Cotillons in Crit. Observ. Art of Dancing 5 Allemande. This figure is performed by interlacing your Arms with your Partner's, in various ways. 1808 T. Wilson Anal. Country Dancing 7 Allemande, the lady at A, and Gentleman at B, pass round each other, the Lady in the circle C, and the Gentleman in the circle D, returning to their situations at AB. 1892 E. Scott Dancing xii. 148 Allemande, a movement in which the gentleman turns the lady under his arm, or in which the arms of the dancers are otherwise interlaced. 1949 A. Chujoy Dance Encycl. 6/1 A characteristic figure is that in which the gentleman turns the lady under his arm and vice versa. There is a hint of this in the ‘allemand’ of American square dancing. 1982 A. Hoffman Square Dancing in Ice Age 41 The forces of power were changing partners. With an allemande left and an allemande right. 1994 Mod. Maturity July 78/3 Squaring up for a do-si-do and an allemande left are Eunice McCullough and Tavy Linderman. 2008 W. Berry in L. Merrill Pedestrian Photographs 8/2 They could almost be performing an allemande in a square dance, looking ahead in opposite directions to their next partners. 2. Music. A piece of music based on or accompanying an allemande (sense 1a), esp. one forming a movement of a suite. Cf. Almain 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 c1639 R. Aylward et al. in A. Deakin Outl. Musical Bibliography (1899) I. 91 (title of MS) A Collection of Ayres, Allemandes, Courantes, Sarabands, Jiggs, &c. 1685 London Gaz. mmlxxxi/4 Airs for the Violin, To wit, Preludes, Fuges, Allmands, Sarabands. 1707 Glossographia Anglicana Nova Allemande, is a kind of grave solid Musick, where the Measure is good and the Movement Slow. 1784 European Mag. & London Rev. June 451/2 This selection of Music for the Harp consists of fifty movements,..in which are introduced,..a number of allemandes, marches, country-dances. 1833 Penny Cycl. I. 346 Handel, and other composers of his period..never intended their allemandes to be so fast as they are performed by modern players. 1879 E. Prout in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 55/2 The allemande is a piece of moderate rapidity—about an allegretto—in common time. 1914 Musical Times Mar. 1 186/2 In Bach's day the instrumental Suite consisted of the Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, and Gigue. 1998 Strad June 635/2 Her playing was impeccable in the double-stopped complexities of the Allemande. 3. Cookery. In full allemande sauce, sauce allemande. A type of rich velouté sauce thickened with egg yolks and cream. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > other sauces galantine1304 civya1325 egerdouce1381 gravy?c1390 camelinea1425 chawdronc1440 saffron sauce?a1505 sibber-sauce1556 ferry?1570 oxoleum1574 slabber-sauce1574 saupiquet1656 slapsauce1708 brown sauce1723 bread sauce1727 custard1747 bechamel1789 caper-sauce1791 tomato sauce1804 custard cream1805 allemande1806 sambal1815 Reading sauce1816 Harvey's Sauce1818 velouté sauce1830 suprême sauce1833 parsley sauce1836 agrodolce1838 Worcestershire sauce1843 espagnole1845 pestoa1848 cheese sauce1854 nam prik1857 Worcester sauce1863 Béarnaise sauce1868 Béarnaise1877 Yorkshire Relish1877 sauce mousseline1892 velvet sauce1893 gribiche1897 mornay sauce1900 sugo1906 sofrito1913 chile con queso1916 foo yung1917 marinara1932 pistou1951 hoisin1957 salsa verde1957 pico de gallo1958 sriracha1959 carbonara1962 amatriciana1963 arrabbiata1963 ponzu1966 puttanesca1971 chermoula1974 tikka masala1975 mojo1983 queso1989 1806 J. Simpson Compl. Syst. Cookery 60 Put sauce Allemande on the dish and the cabbage, and a piece of carrot between each bundle of cabbage. 1846 C. E. Francatelli Mod. Cook 4 Reduce the quantity of white velouté sauce intended for the allemande, over a brisk stove fire. 1868 M. Jewry Warne's Model Cookery 54/1 Allemande, reduced white velouté sauce, thickened with cream and yolks of eggs, seasoned with nutmeg and lemon-juice. 1907 G. A. Escoffier Guide Mod. Cookery i. iii. 42 Poulette Sauce. Boil for a few minutes one pint of Sauce Allemande, and add six tablespoonfuls of mushroom liquor. 1968 Sunday Times Mag. 24 Nov. 90/3 If..you just happen to have a little sauce hollandaise or allemande to hand, you could finish off your sauce with a couple of spoonfuls of either of these instead of the butter and cream. 1995 M. Daheim Major Vices 47 The Allemande and the béchamel are too similar. 2001 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 19 June 5 The steamed lemon sole..sits on a wilted spinach nest surrounded by a particularly good, buttery allemande sauce made with fish stock. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). allemandev. 1. a. intransitive. In imperative, as a call to execute an allemande (allemande n. 1b). Chiefly with specified direction, as allemande left, allemande right. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > lively dances > [interjection] > call to execute specific figure allemande left1883 ?1770 G.-A. Gallini New Coll. 44 Cotillons in Crit. Observ. Art of Dancing 4 Each Couple Allemande to the Right, then to the Left. 1787 New Lady's Mag. Dec. 651/1 Lead down the middle, up again, and cast off—Allemand with your partner. 1828 M. L'Abbe Bossut French Phrase Bk. 64 Cast off and allemande [Fr. en avant et l'allemande.] 1883 C. Phelps in Harper's Mag. Jan. 284/1 What pressure of hands was exchanged when Sandy authorized ‘alamande left’! 1937 B. Tolman & R. Page Country Dance Bk. ii. 33 Allemande Left..Couples turn back to back and walk 4 steps to meet their corner. 1966 C. R. Jensen & M. B. Jensen Beginning Square Dancing 22 Allemande left and allemande thar; right and left and make a star. 2010 B. Clarke Exley 213 ‘Allemande left,’ says the voice on the tape player. b. intransitive. To dance or execute an allemande. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > lively dances > [verb (intransitive)] > specific lively dances cinquepace1581 lavolta1590 courant1625 tricotee1665 jig1672 allemande1779 rigadoon1803 gallop1806 gallopade1831 galop1840 polk1845 polka1846 schottische1865 1779 Deb. on Adultery Bill 4 May in Parl. Hist. (1814) XX. 600/2 Their petit maitres..had been allowed to teach our wives and misses to allemande, and to twist and turn them about at their pleasure. 1835 Naut. Mag. July 416 A girl in the same set, who was tying her shoe-string when she ought to have been allemanding. 1890 S. Baring-Gould Arminell xlviii. 459 The love-making below stairs is..full of restraints and shynesses, of setting to partners, and allemanding about them. 1950 S. Thompson Old Time Dancing (1951) vi. 95 The lady making two complete natural turns as she allemandes under the gentleman's right hand. 1986 N.Y. Mag 30 July 89/1 Within minutes, they're all sashaying and allemanding left and right in quadrilles. 2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Dec. c33/3 As the caller, Mr. Crane let dancers know whether to allemande left or right or grab the hand of a partner, neighbor or corner. 2. transitive. To dance an allemande with (a partner); to dance an allemande to (a piece of music). rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > lively dances > [verb (transitive)] > specific lively dances jig1707 allemande1821 1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish xxxviii. 308 He..allemanded her along in a manner that should not have been seen..out of a king's court. 1895 A. M. Earle Colonial Dames & Good Wives ix. 223 Pea Straw, Faithful Shepherd, Arcadian Nuptials, were allemanded and footed. 1991 S. King Needful Things 619 You threw your partner into the nearest tree instead of allemanding her. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1591v.?1770 |
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