Various styles of women's garments, generally with a decoratively draped overskirt.
1 She stopped in the polonaise before a young lieutenant, who turned scarlet.
2 The men began to choose partners and take their places for the polonaise .
3 They hovered past to the melancholy strains of the Oginski polonaise .
4 Nor did a certain light polonaise conceal the outlines of her charming figure.
5 After sixteen bars of tutti, the pianoforte commences, unaccompanied, the polonaise .
6 Then the polonaise formed, and they went in to supper.
7 The nickname 'Polish' relates to the finale which draws on rhythms from the polonaise .
8 The first dance was a polonaise , after which the musicians struck up a waltz.
9 The polonaise led to a waltz, again by Chopin, then one of Beethoven's sonatas.
10 A quarter of an hour after my arrival, the ball began with a polonaise .
11 She played Chopin-studies, waltzes, mazurkas, preludes, a polonaise or two.
12 The door opened, and from the dining room came the resounding strains of the polonaise :
13 Practically, he may be said to have invented the polonaise , the nocturne, and the ballad.
14 The second polonaise is of a wholly different character.
15 It is, to quote Niecks, a modified polonaise , danced by the peasants with lusty abandon.
16 For outer garments-well , Ihavea trained black silk dress, with a black silk polonaise !
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