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sarabande

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.75 in modern English

Syllables
sara-bande
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A 16th-century Spanish dance.

noun

A stately Baroque dance in slow triple time.

noun

The music for either of these dances.

Etymology

Borrowed from French sarabande, from Spanish zarabanda.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

sarabandes (plural) saraband (alternative) sarabrand (alternative) zarabanda (alternative)

Questions

What does sarabande mean?
A 16th-century Spanish dance.
Where does sarabande come from?
It is traced to French.

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