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saraband

or sar·a·bande

[ sar-uh-band ]

noun

  1. a slow, stately Spanish dance, especially of the 17th and 18th centuries, in triple meter, derived from a vigorous castanet dance.
  2. a piece of music for or using the rhythm of this dance, usually forming one of the movements in the classical suite and following the courante.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of saraband1

1610–20; < French sarabande < Spanish zarabanda, perhaps < Arabic sarband a kind of dance < Persian
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Example Sentences

In his ears the hum of insects still sounded, and to his unheeding eyes the stars danced their saraband.

Somewhere there was a moon, for scurrying clouds were dancing a witches' saraband across a faintly clearer sky.

The King then approached Julian, and desired him to take his instrument, and cause his female companion to perform a saraband.

Of distant climes the false report It lured me from my native land; It bade me rove—my sole support My cymbals and my saraband.

Somber figures danced in a saraband of shadows to a yearning melody of Tschaikovsky.

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