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Stately old dance
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pavan
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n. music composed for dancing the pavane [syn: pavane ] a stately court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries [syn: pavane ]
Usage examples of pavan.
He and Coigns had been assigned away from the Lunn garrison to the infantry forces of Pavan Nils Barrow, now encamped outside the northern coastal city of Thumbre.
In an orchestra in the largest room, musicians were placed, and here brawls, galliards, lavoltas, passameasures, pavans, sauteuses, cushion-dances, and kissing-dances were performed by the company.
An element here from a Spanish pavan, an influence there of a French psalm tune, a flavour here of early English carol, a savour there of later German chorals.