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plural allemandes
A popular instrumental dance form in Baroque music, and a standard element of a suite, generally the first or second movement. examples
third-person singular simple present allemandes, present participle allemanding, simple past and past participle allemanded
To perform this dance. quotations examples
The gaudy splashes of lightning made it seem that some weird dance was going on, one where you threw your partner into the nearest tree instead of allemanding her, or dug your knee into his crotch instead of doing a do-si-do.
1991, Stephen King, Needful Things