coranto

[ kuh-ran-toh, -rahn-, koh- ]

noun

, plural co·ran·tos, co·ran·toes.

1. courante.

coranto

/ kɒˈræntəʊ /

noun

1. a variant of courante

Word History and Origins

Origin of coranto¹

1615–25; earlier carranta < Italian cor ( r ) anta < French courante courante

Example Sentences

Wherefore are these things hid? wherefore have these gifts a curtain before them? why dost thou not go to church in a galliard, and come home in a coranto?

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Coranto, ko-rant′o, n. a rapid and lively kind of dance.

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So Elizabeth danced And the guest was entranced As she tripped the Coranto, and curtseyed and swayed In a robe of rich stuff, Jewelled slashings and ruff, And a stomacher stiff, thick with pearlings and braid.

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She would dance a Coranto, that the French Ambassador, hidden behind a curtain, might report her sprightliness to his master.—Greene.

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Time in Holland is a foolish old fellow with all the antics of a youth, who "goes to church in a coranto, and lights his pipe in a cinque-pace."

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