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† ˈAlmain, a. and n. Obs.
Forms: 4 almaun, 5 -ayn, 6–7 -an(e, 4–8 -ain, (7–8 almond).
[a. OFr. aleman (mod. allemand), a. Ger. alaman.]
A. adj. German.
1549Compl. Scotl. 66 Thai dancit al cristyn mennis dance,..the alman haye. 1586T. B. La Primaudaye's Fr. Acad. i. 84 The emperor Frederike the II spake the Morisco, Almaigne, Italian, and French toong. 1587Holinshed Scot. Chron. I. 3 Towards the Almaine Sea..Scotland hath the Mers. c1590Marlowe Faustus i. 123 Almain rutters with their horsemen's staves. 1665Manley tr. Grotius's L. Country Wars 907 The Netherlanders belonged no more to the Almain Empire than the French did.
B. n.
1. A German.
c1314Guy Warw. 70 The Almains ben ouer come. c1350Will. Palerne 1165 Þe almauns seweden sadly. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. ix. (1495) 869 Whitysshe colour in Almayns, Duchemen. 1594Blundevil Exerc. iii. ii. vi. (ed. 7) 382 The Spanish and the high Almaines. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. i. iii. (1636) 141 The Armenians did gladly receive the Almans. 1698Life Bl. Prince in Harl. Misc. (1793) 51 Not only French, but Almains, Dutch.
2. A kind of dance. Hence Almain-leap.
1549[See Alman haye under A]. 1584Peele Arraignm. Paris ii. ii. 28 Knights in armour, treading a warlike almain. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Saut, Trois pas, & vn saut, The Almond leape. 1616B. Jonson Devil is an Ass i. i. (N.) And take his almain-leap into a custard. a1634Chapman Alphonsus Plays (1873) III. 238 An Almain and an upspring, that is all. a1701Sedley Bellamira v. i. Wks. 1766, 179, I will leap the half almond with you.
3. A species of dance-music in slow time, afterwards included as one of the movements of the Suite.
1597T. Morley Introd. Mus. 181 The Alman is a more heauie [measure] then this. 1651Playford (title) A Musicall Banquet. The second [Part] a Collection of New and Choyce Allmans, Corants, and Sarabands, for one Treble and Basse Viol. 1676Shadwell Virtuoso iii. (1720) I. 362 To play, first a grave pavin or almain. 1882Shorthouse J. Inglesant II. liii. 14 Sweet dance music, such as Pavins, Almains.
¶ In senses 2 and 3 now written allemande. |