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Webster 1913 Edition


Allemande

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Al′le-mande′

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Noun.
[F., fr.
allemand
German.]
1.
(Mus.)
A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; – now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.
2.
A figure in dancing.