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Definition of Pavan
1. Noun. Music composed for dancing the pavane.
2. Noun. A stately court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Definition of Pavan
1. n. A stately and formal Spanish dance for which full state costume is worn; -- so called from the resemblance of its movements to those of the peacock.
Definition of Pavan
1. a slow, stately dance [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pavan
Literary usage of Pavan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Elizabethan Virginal Book: Being a Critical Essay on the Contents of a by Edward Woodall Naylor (1905)
"Two others must be mentioned here, viz., the pavan and Galliard by Edward Johnson,
... 114, where a strain of Johnson's pavan and Galliard is quoted. ..."
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