minuet

n. slow and stately dance in triple meter (French); music for this dance

This article is about the dance. For the Star Trek character, see Minuet (Star Trek). For the operating system, see MenuetOS. For the web-browser/e-mail software, see Minnesota Internet Users Essential Tool A minuet, sometimes spelled menuet, is a social dance of French origin for two persons, usually in 3/4 time. The word was adapted, under the influence of the Italian minuetto, from the French menuet, meaning small, pretty, delicate, a diminutive of menu, from the Latin minutus; menuetto is a word that occurs only on musical scores. The word refers probably to the short steps, pas menus, taken in the dance. At the period when it was most fashionable it was slow, ceremonious, and graceful.
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Noun
1. a stately court dance in the 17th century
(hypernym) ballroom dancing, ballroom dance
2. a stately piece of music composed for dancing the minuet; often incorporated into a sonata or suite
(hypernym) dance music, danceroom music, ballroom music

(n.)
A tune or air to regulate the movements of the dance so called; a movement in suites, sonatas, symphonies, etc., having the dance form, and commonly in 3-4, sometimes 3-8, measure.
  

(n.)
A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupee, a high step, and a balance.
  

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