Bransle

Word BRANSLE
Character 7
Hyphenation bran sle
Pronunciations N/A

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The 'French _bransle_,' he says, is like the Alman (Allemagne of Bach, etc.) -- _i. e._, it 'containeth the time of eight, and most commonly in short notes.' ❋ Unknown (1900)

Castlemaine; and so other lords other ladies; and they danced the bransle. ❋ Unknown (1883)

The violins sounded the call to places in the _bransle_, the favorite dance of the gay court, and Count Armand noted the smile of triumph which ❋ Elbridge Streeter Brooks (1874)

Happy privilege of youth,” she added with a sigh, as the youthful couple went off to take their place in the bransle, 23 “which can snatch a flower even on the roughest road.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

His days were passed chiefly in attendance upon Lady Fareham -- singing and playing, fetching and carrying combing her favourite spaniel with the same ivory pocket-comb that arranged his own waterfall curls; or reading a French romance to her, or teaching her the newest game of cards, or the last dancing-step imported from Fontainebleau or St. Cloud, or some new grace or fashion in dancing, the holding of the hand lower or higher; the latest manner of passaging in a bransle or a coranto, as performed by the French King and Madame ❋ Unknown (1875)

French figures; [The bransle, or brawl, had all the characteristics of ❋ Unknown (1883)

"Faith, mam'selle," the boy count replied, "'t is a trick that may set us all a livelier dance than your delightful _la bransle_. ❋ Elbridge Streeter Brooks (1874)

For myself, I shall lead Jane Seymour to the bransle. " ❋ William Harrison Ainsworth (1843)

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