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Word entry · 6 letters

minuet

Best crossword clue

"Stately old dance"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPart of speech nounSorted eimntuStarts with MEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a stately court dance in the 17th century

Word origin

From French menuet, from menu (“small”) + -et (“diminutive”), from Latin minutus (“very small”).

Used in a sentence

  • After he had raved his time upon the stage, the ladies and knights again minueted for an hour, and again gave place.
  • Within the same circle with the pigeons, were beautiful albatrosses, poising and minueting with them in the most pleasing fellowship.
  • This set the pattern for four years, as the two monarchs minueted around the vast Commonwealth, never again to face each other personally in battle.

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