courante

Borrowed from French courante.

courante (plural courantes)

1. (music) An old French dance from the late Renaissance and the Baroque era in triple metre.
2. (music) The second movement of a baroque suite (following the allemande, and before the sarabande)

• cornuate, outrance

• IPA^(key): /ku.ʁɑ̃t/

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courante

1. feminine singular of courant

courante f (plural courantes)

1. (slang) the runs (diarrhea)
2. courante (dance)
3. courante (music)

(diarrhea): chiasse

• → English: courante

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

• écrouant, encroûta, outrance