The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corant \Co*rant\, Coranto \Co*ran"to\, n. [See Courant.] A sprightly but somewhat stately dance, now out of fashion.
It is harder to dance a corant well, than a jig.
--Sir
W. temple.
Dancing a coranto with him upon the heath.
--Macaulay.
Wiktionary
n. A fast-paced dance which originated in France.
Wikipedia
Corantos were early informational broadsheets, precursors to newspapers. Beginning around the 14th century, a system developed where letters of news and philosophical discussion would be sent to a central collecting point to be bundled and sent around to the various correspondents. The banking house of Fugger had an organized system of collecting and routing these letters, which often could be seen by outsiders. This system would not die until the 18th century. The term "newspaper" was not coined till 1670. Prior to this, a welter of terms were used to describe this genre including: paper, newsbook, pamphlet, broadsheet, and coranto.
Usage examples of "coranto".
I watched as they fell in succession to the galliard, the coranto and the pavane.
The musicians began to play a coranto, and there was a stir of nervous, challenging laughter.
When the coranto ended, they all bowed and kissed one another, formal as china figurines, random and sensual as bending grass.
Only three months previously the Queen had danced a coranto at court, a complicated measure which demanded a good deal of energy.
They dance pavanes, galliards, corantos, branles, contredans, and so forth.
A student of Shakspere, I had learned something of every dance alluded to in his plays, and hence partially understood several of those I now saw--the minuet, the pavin, the hey, the coranto, the lavolta.