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Answer for the clue "Ravel work (with "La") ", 5 letters:
valse

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n. a ballroom dance in triple time with a strong accent on the first beat [syn: waltz ]

Usage examples of valse.

Ze belde Sandoz in San Juan en viel met de deur in huis, zonder valse bescheidenheid of overdrijving.

The healer was B Lullaby, the strawberry blonde was G-minor Valse, the pinto B Clarino, and the blue Titanide now bore the name of G Foxtrot.

He had lived through a glorious madness, as unlike the vulgar oat-sowing of the average young man of wealth as the latest valse on a street-organ is unlike a passionate dream of Chopin.

An upright semi-grand piano near the door, flanked by two palms in pots, executed suddenly all by itself a valse tune with aggressive virtuosity.

The mechanical piano near the door played through a valse cheekily, then fell silent all at once, as if gone grumpy.

Jane was pounding her way through a Chopin valse with conscientious accuracy, and stopped with undisguised relief when they came in.

It was not a ball, nor had dancing been announced, but everyone knew that Catherine Petrovna would play valses and the ecossaise on the clavichord and that there would be dancing, and so everyone had come as to a ball.

Catherine Petrovna did actually play valses and the ecossaise, and dancing began in which Nicholas still further captivated the provincial society by his agility.

It was not a ball, nor had dancing been announced, but everyone knew that Catherine Petrovna would play valses and the ecossaise on the clavichord and that there would be dancing, and so everyone had come as to a ball.

Catherine Petrovna would play valses and the ecossaise on the clavichord and that there would be dancing, and so everyone had come as to a ball.

The program consisted of Polovetsian Dances, Sleeping Beauty with Petipa's ambitious choreography, and the Valse Triste, which Madame Lara had rehearsed.

I had now to confess that I was unskilled in the native American folk dances which I had observed being performed, whereupon she briskly chided me for my backwardness, but commanded a valse from the musicians, and this we danced together.

La cosa valse a rincuorarmi, e siccome avevo ancora a bordo la bandiera del mio padrone, la sventolai per chiedere soccorso e sparai un colpo di fucile.

Le sue argomentazioni erano valse a raffred­dare almeno per un po' l'ardore di Jaffe, il quale aveva la­sciato che Fletcher proseguisse secondo i suoi programmi, tornando ora settimanalmente a trovarlo, per convincersi a ogni visita della progressiva disintegrazione del maestro, ma pensando che sarebbe bastato l'orgoglio per il proprio suc­cesso a impedirgli di distruggere quanto aveva creato.

In breve, questo viaggio fece di me un marinaio e un mercante, perché tornai in patria con cinque libbre e nove once di polvere d'oro che a Londra mi fruttarono un guadagno di circa trecento sterline: il che valse a riempirmi la testa di quei propositi ambiziosi che avrebbero segnato la mia rovina.