† Grandpèren.

Forms: 1800s Grandpere, 1800s Grandpère.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French grandpère.

Etymology: < French grandpère (1814 or earlier), specific sense of grandpère grandfather < grand grand adj. + père père n. (see further grandfather n.).

Obsolete.

A kind of country dance, similar to the cotillion.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > square, figure, or set dance > [noun] > specific dances

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1835 Woman I. v. 171 Are not the forms of dance more recently introduced, the Galoppe, Mazurka, Cotillon, Grandpere, ‘romping’?

1864 P. M. Irving Life & Lett. W. Irving IV. 348 With what horror, then, did he gaze around him, as he beheld advancing the animated procession of the Grandpère (the concluding dance of the evening), headed by the young Prince of Prussia.

1897 Private Life of Queen xvi. 132 One very favourite dance being a contre danse called Grandpère, which was nother more or less than ‘Follow-my-Leader’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	grandpère
释义	† Grandpèren. Forms: 1800s Grandpere, 1800s Grandpère. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French grandpère. Etymology: < French grandpère (1814 or earlier), specific sense of grandpère grandfather < grand grand adj. + père père n. (see further grandfather n.). Obsolete. A kind of country dance, similar to the cotillion. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > square, figure, or set dance > [noun] > specific dances brawla1542 branglec1550 caterbrawl1565 bransle1590 branle1674 bocanea1701 cotillion1766 quadrille1773 German cotillion1831 supper quadrille1831 Grandpère1835 galop1837 brantle1846 German1853 lancers1862 grandfather1897 1835 Woman I. v. 171 Are not the forms of dance more recently introduced, the Galoppe, Mazurka, Cotillon, Grandpere, ‘romping’? 1864 P. M. Irving Life & Lett. W. Irving IV. 348 With what horror, then, did he gaze around him, as he beheld advancing the animated procession of the Grandpère (the concluding dance of the evening), headed by the young Prince of Prussia. 1897 Private Life of Queen xvi. 132 One very favourite dance being a contre danse called Grandpère, which was nother more or less than ‘Follow-my-Leader’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1835
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