polonaise

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Turkish - Turkish
Polonya halk dansı
English - English
Of or pertaining to the Poles, or to Poland
The Polish language
Music for this dance
A woman's dress having a tight bodice and a skirt divided to show a coloured underskirt
A stately Polish dance in triple time and moderate tempo
An article of dress for women, consisting of a body and an outer skirt in one piece
A condiment frequently put on a parrot sandwich
{i} slow Polish dance; music for this dance
Dignified ceremonial dance in 3 4 time, frequently employing dotted rhythms, that often opened court balls in the 17th-19th century. It likely began as a warrior's triumphal dance and had been adopted by the Polish court as a formal march as early as 1573. The dancers promenaded with gliding steps accented by bending the knee slightly on every third step. It often appeared in ballets, and it was used as a musical form by composers such as George Frideric Handel, Ludwig van Beethoven, and especially Frédéric Chopin, whose piano polonaises were martial and heroic
a woman's dress with a tight bodice and an overskirt drawn back to reveal a colorful underskirt
dress with a close-fitting body and full skirt looped up to form three vertical panels and festoons
A stately Polish dance in moderate triple time, often with a repeated rhythmic pattern
A stately Polish dance tune, in 3-4 measure, beginning always on the beat with a quaver followed by a crotchet, and closing on the beat after a strong accent on the second beat; also, a dance adapted to such music; a polacca
A womans dress having a tight bodice and a skirt divided to show a coloured underskirt
This is a stately Polish processional dance or instrumental piece
polonaises
plural of polonaise
polonaise

    Hyphenation

    po·lo·naise

    Turkish pronunciation

    pälıneyz

    Pronunciation

    /ˌpäləˈnāz/ /ˌpɑːləˈneɪz/

    Etymology

    () From the French polonaise (Polish).
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