Pavan

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of pavane (“musical style and dance”). alt-of, alternative

    "And he tasted in the language of memory ambered wines, dying fallings of sweet airs, the proud pavan: and saw with the eyes of memory kind gentlewomen in Covent Garden wooing from their balconies with sucking mouths and the pox fouled wenches of the taverns and young wives that, gaily yielding to their ravishers, clipped and clipped again."

  2. 2
    a stately court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries wordnet
  3. 3
    music composed for dancing the pavane wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.

Synonyms

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pavanepavane

Example

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"And he tasted in the language of memory ambered wines, dying fallings of sweet airs, the proud pavan: and saw with the eyes of memory kind gentlewomen in Covent Garden wooing from their balconies with sucking mouths and the pox fouled wenches of the taverns and young wives that, gaily yielding to their ravishers, clipped and clipped again."

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit पवन (pavana).

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