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saraband


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Saraband  \Sar"a*band\,  n.  [F.  sarabande,  Sp  zarabanda  fr  Per. 
  serbend  a  song.] 
  A  slow  Spanish  dance  of  Saracenic  origin,  to  an  air  in  triple 
  time;  also  the  air  itself 
 
  She  has  brought  us  the  newest  saraband  from  the  court 
  of  Queen  Mab.  --Sir  W. 
  Scott. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  saraband 
  n  1:  music  composed  for  dancing  the  saraband 
  2:  a  stately  court  dance  of  the  17th  and  18th  centuries;  in 
  slow  time 




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