estampien.

1937 B. Schönberg tr. C. Sachs's World Hist. Dance vii. 284 The musicians fiddle an estampie, and the dancers give themselves up to it.

1940 G. Reese Mus. Middle Ages vii. 218 Estampidas or, in French, estampies, among the earliest known examples of medieval instrumental music properly so called, were tunes meant—at least eventually—to be played by the jongleurs on their vièles to the tripping—or stamping?—of the dancers.

1955 New Oxf. Hist. Music (rev. ed.) II. v. 149 We know how strong were the links between the medieval sequence and the secular lai and the instrumental estampie.

1963 Times 20 May 6/4 A programme of court dances ranging over five centuries, starting with two examples of the thirteenth-century Estampie.

1977 Early Music 5 191 The vida of Raimbaut tells that two French jongleurs arrived at his court and played an estampida on their vieilles which so pleased the court that Raimbaut was moved to provide it with a text.

1989 E. M. Ripin et al. Early Keyboard Instruments v. 200 This..manuscript..consists of two and a half dances in the form of estampies (melodies without text).