allemande

Borrowed from French allemande (“German (dance)”).

allemande (plural allemandes)

1. A popular instrumental dance form in Baroque music, and a standard element of a suite, generally the first or second movement.

• (instrumental dance form): allemanda, almain, alman

• allemande left

allemande (third-person singular simple present allemandes, present participle allemanding, simple past and past participle allemanded)

1. To perform this dance.
   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:

     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.

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allemande

1. feminine singular of allemand

allemande f (plural allemandes)

1. allemande (dance)

• → English: allemande

• “allemande”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

allemande f pl

1. plural of allemanda