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Answer for the clue "A stately court dance of the 17th and 18th centuries ", 8 letters:
saraband

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saraband \Sar"a*band\, n. [F. sarabande, Sp. zarabanda, fr. Per. serbend a song.] A slow Spanish dance of Saracenic origin, to an air in triple time; also, the air itself. She has brought us the newest saraband from the court of Queen Mab. --Sir W. Scott. ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Saraband is a 2003 Swedish drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman , and his final film. It was made for Swedish television, but released theatrically in a longer cut outside Sweden. Its United States theatrical release, with English subtitles, was in July ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A slow Spanish dance of Saracenic origin, to an air in triple time; also, the air itself.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. music composed for dancing the saraband a stately court dance of the 17th and 18th centuries; in slow time

Usage examples of saraband.

They danced by the thousands in the streets of the cities —in grotesque rigadoons, in bizarre sarabands, with shuffle and hop, and jig the robots danced while the people fled in panic and hundreds of them were crushed and died in those panics.

Weakness blurred his vision so that the scrub barely masking the stoney ground danced and spun in wild sarabands of bewildering complexity.

Endless sarabands ran through her head, and, like an Indian dancing-girl on the flowers of a carpet, her thoughts leaped with the notes, swung from dream to dream, from sadness to sadness.