Slow processional dance common in Europe during the 16th century.
Music composed for dancing the pavane.
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Examples for "pavan "
Examples for "pavan "
1 Queens and princesses have flirted gorgeous peacock fans; the pavan , a favorite dance in the days of Louis le Grand, imitated its stately step.
2 Pavan said he would stick to his Italian bond holdings for now.
3 There are so many indirect ways to access the Net, said Pavan Duggal.
4 The one that everyone is aware of and is doing something about is climate change, said Pavan Sukhdev of the U.N.
5 Italy's Andrea Pavan claimed his second European Tour title by beating England's Matt Fitzpatrick in a playoff in the BMW International Open.
1 So it was that Seregil found himself partnered with Atre for the pavane .
2 The pavane in the Khaurenesaine progressed inexorably farther into the realm of dark fortune.
3 The pavane had come to its first conclusion; the dancers bowed, preparing for the gavotte.
4 It was here that I first heard Ferrabosco's pavane .
5 You remember Ferrabosco's pavane which you liked so much-
6 When he sank back into his chair, the musicians stumbled into the beginning of a pavane .
7 The pavane was over, the gavotte finished.
8 Moreover, he was interested in the revival of Palestrina at St. Joseph's, and he liked Ferrabosco's pavane .
9 Joe Pareti had danced the educational pavane and had decided the tune was not nearly sprightly enough for him.
10 They were dancing with the light, and she could hear music, an aching, haunting music, solemn, like a pavane .
11 Nevermind the meta, the pavane of family life in the front room is absorbing and funny in its own right.
12 Would any one have expected to behold Gama, a grave man, as his portraits represent him, initiating the negroes into the charms of the pavane .
13 Harris's book kept calling me back to a neglected classic of alternative history, Keith Roberts's Pavane .
14 She had learnt the 'Prelude,' and had had one lesson, a fortnight before, on the ' Pavane . '
15 Under the pope in Pavane , the world exists in a feudal state with an interdiction on innovation.
16 Ascending staircases unfolded as vaingloriously as pavanes .
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