allemande
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French allemande (“German (dance)”).
Noun edit
allemande (plural allemandes)
- A popular instrumental dance form in Baroque music, and a standard element of a suite, generally the first or second movement.
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instrumental dance form
Verb edit
allemande (third-person singular simple present allemandes, present participle allemanding, simple past and past participle allemanded)
- To perform this dance.
- 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
- The gaudy splashes of lightning made it seem that some weird dance was going on, one where you threw your partner into the nearest tree instead of allemanding her, or dug your knee into his crotch instead of doing a do-si-do.
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Adjective edit
allemande
Noun edit
allemande f (plural allemandes)
- allemande (dance)
Descendants edit
- → English: allemande
Further reading edit
- “allemande”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Noun edit
allemande f pl