APDAPMa slowdance of the 17th and 18th centuries, or a piece of music for this dance 〔17和18世纪的一种缓慢的〕小步舞;小步舞曲
Examples from the Corpus
minuet• The same is true for the 3/4 minuets of Haydn and Mozart.• The point at which a minuet is no longer a minuet, but becomes a waltz or scherzo, is ultimately indefinable.• He was doing a little minuet and he starts finding out things about his body.• Is he merely to proffer his hand and lead her into a statelyminuet?• In the minuet the viola leads both violins.• Throughout history, otherwise unmarkedminuets have been written in a number of time signatures, including 3/4,6/8 and 3/8.
Originminuet
(1600-1700)Frenchmenuet, from Old Frenchmenu“small”; → MINUTE2