allemande
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French allemande (“German (dance)”).
NounEdit
allemande (plural allemandes)
- A popular instrumental dance form in Baroque music, and a standard element of a suite, generally the first or second movement.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
instrumental dance form
VerbEdit
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.
- 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things
See alsoEdit
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
AdjectiveEdit
allemande
NounEdit
allemande f (plural allemandes)
- allemande (dance)
DescendantsEdit
- → English: allemande
Further readingEdit
- “allemande”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
ItalianEdit
NounEdit
allemande f pl