polonaise
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- noun
- /ˌpɒləˈneɪz/
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polonesa (danza)
- During the gala, everyone eagerly awaited the start of the polonaise, a traditional dance that highlighted the elegance of the evening.
- Chopin polonaise
Examples
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This polonaise was the Alliance's early anthem.
Academic text (1999) -
Polonaise.
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♪♪ ["The Polonaise"]
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Child musicians like Mozart, who wrote his first symphony at the age of eight, or Chopin, who wrote polonaises at seven, accomplish something outside the ken of cold and technical fields like mathematics or chess, the other domains of precocious genius.
Academic text (2007) -
As the orchestra began to play a polonaise, couples gracefully took to the dance floor, moving in time with the music.
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The teacher introduced the children to the polonaise, explaining its origins and the rhythmic steps that characterized this classic Polish dance.
Synonyms
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A slow, graceful dance in three beats or the music for that dance
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A slow, formal dance or musical piece in triple time from the Baroque period
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A slow formal dance in three beats or the music for that dance
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A slow, formal dance from Europe in the 1500s and 1600s, or music written for it
How Slow
Surface Forms
Etymology
Polonaise comes from a French word meaning 'Polish' because the dance began in Poland as a slow, stately walk with music. So a polonaise is a slow, noble Polish dance and the music written for that dance.