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‖ boˈcane Obs.
[Fr., f. the name of the inventor, Bocan, dancing master to Queen Anne of Austria.]
‘A stately figure-dance, much esteemed in the 17th cent.’ Littré.
a1701Sedley Grumbler iii. i. Wks. (1766) 225 You would have a grave, serious dance, perhaps?..the courante, the bocane, the sarabande? |