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saraband
or sar·a·bande
[ sar-uh-band ]
noun
- a slow, stately Spanish dance, especially of the 17th and 18th centuries, in triple meter, derived from a vigorous castanet dance.
- 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.
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Somewhere there was a moon, for scurrying clouds were dancing a witches' saraband across a faintly clearer sky.
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The King then approached Julian, and desired him to take his instrument, and cause his female companion to perform a saraband.
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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.
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Somber figures danced in a saraband of shadows to a yearning melody of Tschaikovsky.
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