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Menuet

Menuet | Menuetto

Menuet meaning

Alternative form of minuet (“type of dance”).

Example sentences (2)

Sometimes the composer describes the part to be repeated, for example: Menuet da capo.

The word was adapted from Italian minuetto and French menuet, possibly from the French menu meaning slender, small, referring to the very small steps, or from the early 17th-century popular group dances called branle à mener or amener.