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saraband1|ˈsærəbænd|
Also 7–8 sarabrand, 8–9 sarabande.
[ad. F. sarabande, ad. Sp. zarabanda (= Pg. sarabando), prob. of Oriental origin.]
1. A slow and stately Spanish dance in triple time.
1616B. Jonson Devil an Ass iv. iv, Coach it to Pimlico; daunce the Saraband. 1675Crowne Country Wit iv. 51, I can dance Corantoes and Jiggs and Sarabands. 1726Adv. Capt. R. Boyle (1768) 186 He went away to his own Chamber, leaving room in all our Pockets for the Devil to dance a Saraband. 1741Richardson Pamela III. 324 Oh! that I could but dance as well as thou sing'st! I'd give you a Saraband, as old as I am. 1776Hawkins Hist. Mus. IV. 388 note, Within the memory of persons now living, a Saraband danced by a Moor was constantly a part of the entertainment at a puppet-shew. 1809Campbell Gert. Wyom. i. v, Nor far some Andalusian saraband Would sound to many a native rondelay.
attrib.1696tr. Du Mont's Voy. Levant 284 They begin..with a Saraband-Step, two steps forward and three back⁓wards.
b. transf. and fig.
a1658Lovelace Posth. Poems (1659) 10 So you but with a touch from your fair Hand Turn all to Saraband. 1703Rules of Civility 22 'Tis pleasant, in troth, to see a lame Person find fault with a Step in such a Sarabrand. 1860R. A. Vaughan Mystics (ed. 2) II. 75 In that unswept brain of his..the super-subtile fancies of theosophy, have danced a whirlwind saraband. 1863I. Williams Baptistery ii. xxxi. (1874) 181 When the loose villager Weaves 'neath the moon his rustic saraband.
2. A piece of music composed for this dance or in its rhythm, in which the second note of the measure is commonly lengthened.
1625B. Jonson Staple of N. iv. ii, How they are tickl'd with a light ayre! the bawdy Saraband! 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes 96 As Musitians, that first play a Preludium, next a Lesson, and then a Saraband. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 152 The lady called to the orchestre for a saraband. 1776Burney Hist. Mus. (1789) IV. i. 114 Corelli in the saraband of his eleventh concerto. 1820Scott Monast. xxviii, He hummed a saraband. 1860O. W. Holmes Elsie V. xxv, Elsie rattled out a triple measure of a saraband. 1884Haweis My Mus. Life I. 8 Those simple and severe gigues and sarabands. |