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noun 
  1. A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupé, a high step, and a balance.
  2. (music) A tune or air to regulate the movements of the dance so called; a movement in suites, sonatas, symphony, symphonies, etc., having the dance form, and commonly in 3/4, sometimes 3/8, measure.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: menuet
  • French: menuet
  • German: Menuett
  • Spanish: minueto , minué
Etymology: From menuet, from menu "small" + diminutive -etFrench, -et.


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