Definition of "minuet" []

• A slow, stately pattern dance in 3/4 time for groups of couples, originating in 17th-century France. (noun)
• The music for or in the rhythm of the minuet. (noun)
• A movement in 3/4 time that is usually the third, but sometimes the second, of a four-movement symphony or string quartet. (noun)

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• "Maddie what he called a minuet step, and Jonathan and the old woman sitting on the sofa as grave as owls."
• "The last thing I recollect was Starlight showing Maddie what he called a minuet step, and"
• "That very dance which we call a minuet, has been proved by an ingenious"