minuetn.

Brit.

/ˌmɪnjʊˈɛt/, U.S.

/ˌmɪnjəˈwɛt/

Forms: 1600s minnet (transmission error), 1600s minnuet, 1600s minnuét, 1600s minuett, 1600s–1700s minouet, 1600s–1700s minuit, 1600s– menuet, 1600s– minuet, 1700s–1800s minuette.

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

Etymology: < French menuet (1671 in sense 1, 1674 denoting a piece of music played to accompany this), use as noun of Old French, Middle French menuet (adjective) small, fine, delicate (a1188 in Old French) < menu menu n. + -et , diminutive suffix (compare -et suffix¹). English forms with min- are perhaps influenced by Italian minuetto (late 17th cent.). Compare Spanish minuete (late 18th cent.), Portuguese minuete (18th cent. < Italian). Compare minaway n., minuetto n.In 20th cent. works on music the spelling menuet enjoyed a revival. With form minuette compare -ette suffix. N.E.D. (1906) states ‘The pronunciation (mi·niuėt /ˈmɪnjuːɪt/ or mi·niuet /ˈmɪnjuːɛt/), given in all Dictionaries, is now seldom heard.’ The pronunciation with stress on the final syllable is not recorded in dictionaries before the beginning of the 20th cent. Against N.E.D.'s comment one should set the fact that Webster records an alternative pronunciation with primary stress on the first syllable as late as 1954, and D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict. records a pronunciation with equal stress on the first and last syllables as late as 1967 (13th ed.).

a. A stately dance for two in triple time.The minuet originated in France in the latter part of the 17th cent. and was fashionable throughout Europe for much of the 18th cent., becoming increasingly complex and stylized. Some forms of the dance acquired more specific names, notably the minuet de la cour (see sense 1b).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > slow or stately dance > [noun] > specific

pavanea1510

passamezzo1568

passy-measure1597

saraband1631

minuet1672

cerebrand1677

minaway1688

gavotte1696

passepied1696

minuetto1724

polonaise1740

polacca1804

minuetinga1847

varsovienne1859

varsoviana1860

Paduan1880

slow drag1911

strut1937

1672 E. Ravenscroft Citizen turn'd Gentleman i. i. 4 Well, now for my dancing, and because the Morning is far spent, I will only practise over the Minuets.

1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode iv. i. 64 I am fit for Nothing but low dancing now, a Corant, a Boreè, Or a Minnuét.

1702 J. Kersey New Eng. Dict. Menuet, a sort of dance.

1762 O. Goldsmith Life R. Nash 34 Each ball was to open with a minuet, danced by two persons of the highest distinction present.

1778 E. Montagu Let. 21 Feb. in J. Doran Lady of Last Century (1873) 231 To excel in dancing a minouet.

1810 A. Boswell Edinburgh 27 To walk a minuet with becoming grace.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 62 A stiff brocade in which..she, Once with this kinsman,..Stept thro' the stately minuet of those days.

1911 D. H. Lawrence White Peacock i. viii. 148 She made me take her through a valeta, a minuet, a mazurka, and she danced elegantly.

1980 E. Jong Fanny ii. xiii. 286 Whether we trod the Minuet or Rigadoon, or let fly our Feet in Jigs or Country Dances, each Step brought us closer to the inevitable Encounter betwixt the Bed-Clothes.

1993 Sat. Night (Toronto) June 32/3 The cakewalk, where blacks parodied the strut of whites walking, and upper-class dances like the minuet.

b. minuet de la cour n. [ < French menuet de la Cour ‘Court minuet’] a popular variety of minuet. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > dance music > [noun] > others

galliard1545

passamezzo1568

pavane1591

passy-measure1597

rant1656

passacaglia1659

passacaille1667

chaconne1685

rigadoon1690

passepied1696

rigaudon1708

bourrée1776

minuet de la cour1783

quadrille1802

treble1805

pigeon wing1807

polka1825

redowa1843

polka time1844

écossaise1863

verbunkos1880

drag1901

foxtrot1915

burru1929

rumba1931

palais glide1936

Lambeth Walk1937

jitterbug1939

high life1942

Zydeco1949

hand jive1958

hand jiving1958

hokey-cokey1966

twist1966

chicken scratch1972

smoocher1976

funana1981

New Beat1988

trance dance1988

1783 J. O'Keeffe Son-in-Law I. iv. 20 I am a compleat master of all the dances now used in the polite assemblies of Great Britain, from the Scotch Reel to the Minuet de la Cour.

1795 F. Reynolds Speculation II. i. 18 She said I might as well say one of my father's cows had been made to translate Greek, or dance the minuet de la Cour.

1873 C. B. Hartley Gentlemen's Bk. Etiquette 105 Time was when—as in the days of the minuet de la cour—the carriage constituted the dance.

1896 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 530/2 Miss Matty took her dainty steps in the menuets de la cour.

1915 F. M. Hueffer Good Soldier i. i. 10 You can't kill a minuet de la cour. You may shut up the music-book, [etc.].

2. A piece of music played to accompany this dance. Subsequently also: a piece of music of similar rhythm and style, usually written for a suite or (later esp.) as a movement of a sonata or symphony, and typically having three sections of which the second is called a trio and the third is an abbreviated repeat of the first.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > dance music > [noun] > dances used as part of suite

Almain1591

jig1593

coranto1597

courante1597

saraband1631

allemandec1639

minuet1678

gigue1685

gavotte1696

minuetto1724

giga1730

1678 J. Playford Musicks Hand-maid lxxiv. (heading) The New Minnet [sic].

1686 London Gaz. No. 2119/4 There are designed to be published several Overtures or Sonatta's, containing Variety of Humors, as Grave Aires, Minuetts, Borees, &c.

1717 J. Gay Epist. W. Pulteney 144 He..Hums a soft minuet.

1762 T. Jefferson Let. 25 Dec. in Papers (1950) I. 4 They carried away..half a dozen new minuets I had just got.

1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. i. 36 As a dancing-master would, if he expected Orpheus should return to play a minuet to them.

1840 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 387/1 The term trio is also applied to a movement in ¾th time, which often follows the minuet in a piece of instrumental music.

1891 Queen 3 Jan. 18/3 Minuet in D (No. 1) is fairly interesting, Bourrée in G (No. 2) is rather wild.

1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xii. 195 ‘This is the dance for people who don't know how to dance!’ she cried. The tune changed to a minuet.

1961 A. Hopkins Talking about Symphonies iv. 61 The classic Menuet and Trio from which the scherzo form was derived.

1993 Classic CD Oct. 60/3 The German Dances and Minuets, originally written for domestic consumption by the Schubert family quartet.

3. figurative and in figurative context.

ΚΠ

1863 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 137/2 Goethe..carefully stepped through the cumbrous minuet of court-life without impinging upon a single Serene or Well-born bunyon.

1915 F. M. Hueffer Good Soldier i. i. 10 That long, tranquil life, which was just stepping a minuet, vanished in four crashing days at the end of nine years and six weeks.

1954 C. S. Lewis Eng. Lit. in 16th Cent. i. i. 92 This minuet of conventions..enables the poem to remain recognizably occasional.

1975 Times 6 Jan. 7/2 The stately minuet of its university visitations..was replaced by..attention to balance sheets.

2001 N.Y. Times 17 May b1/1 There is an elaborate minuet in Albany, where passing a budget is a little like getting engaged. No engagement, no wedding. No budget, no action on legislation.

Compounds

General attributive.

minuet dance n.

ΚΠ

1765 W. Stevenson Orig. Poems II. 111 She moves along..In the smooth measures of the minuet-dance.

1831 T. Carlyle in Foreign Q. Rev. Oct. 351 The graceful minuet dance of Fancy.

minuet-dancer n.

ΚΠ

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 308. ¶6 John Trot..has the Assurance to set up for a Minuit-Dancer.

1880 Littell's Living Age 4 Sept. 630/1 Mademoiselle Vestris, the most graceful and languishing of all minuet-dancers.

minuet dancing n.

ΚΠ

1778 E. Montagu Let. in J. Doran Lady of Last Century (1873) x. 244 Minouet dancing is just now out of fashion.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge iv. 255 Sim..sprang from his seat, and in two extraordinary steps, something between skating and minuet dancing, bounded to a washing place.

minuet form n.

ΚΠ

1875 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Musical Form vii. 43 The original minuet form always consisted of a piece in triple time and of moderate speed.

minuet step n.

ΚΠ

1704 T. Baker Act at Oxf. ii. ii. 17 There's Beau Spider... He..goes out in a Minuet Step.

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. iv. 177 Bellarmine rose from his Chair, traversed the Room in a Minuet Step, and humm'd an Opera Tune.

1897 Harper's Mag. Feb. 447/2 Grand dames..practised minuet steps and stately courtesies before their mirrors.

1960 M. Wood Advanced Historical Dances 28/2 Simple minuet step continuing round until the gentleman faces up the room and the lady down.

minuet time n.

ΚΠ

1765 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 12 Dec. (1932) (modernized text) VI. 2692 Do everything in minuet time, speak, think, and move always in that measure.

1823 W. Hazlitt Liber Amoris 27 You move in minuet-time: you measure every step.

minuet tune n.

ΚΠ

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xxiv. 136 He..returned with a violin, and struck up, as he entered, a minuet-tune.

1764 J. Boswell Jrnl. 3 Dec. in Boswell on Grand Tour (1953) I. 210 He taught me a French song..to a minuet tune.

1895 V. Lee in Littell's Living Age 31 Aug. 552/1 There are some verses of Verlaine's, which come to me always, on the melancholy minuet tune to which Monsieur Fauré has set them.

Derivatives

† minuetic adj. Obsolete Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1856 W. Bagehot Lit. Stud. (1879) II. 34 You should do everything, said Lord Chesterfield, in minuet time. It was in that time that Gibbon wrote his history... You perceive the minuetic action accompanying the words.

† minuetish adj. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xvi. 114 A Glut of minuitish Airs.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	minuet
释义	minuetn. Brit. /ˌmɪnjʊˈɛt/, U.S. /ˌmɪnjəˈwɛt/ Forms: 1600s minnet (transmission error), 1600s minnuet, 1600s minnuét, 1600s minuett, 1600s–1700s minouet, 1600s–1700s minuit, 1600s– menuet, 1600s– minuet, 1700s–1800s minuette. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French menuet. Etymology: < French menuet (1671 in sense 1, 1674 denoting a piece of music played to accompany this), use as noun of Old French, Middle French menuet (adjective) small, fine, delicate (a1188 in Old French) < menu menu n. + -et , diminutive suffix (compare -et suffix¹). English forms with min- are perhaps influenced by Italian minuetto (late 17th cent.). Compare Spanish minuete (late 18th cent.), Portuguese minuete (18th cent. < Italian). Compare minaway n., minuetto n.In 20th cent. works on music the spelling menuet enjoyed a revival. With form minuette compare -ette suffix. N.E.D. (1906) states ‘The pronunciation (mi·niuėt /ˈmɪnjuːɪt/ or mi·niuet /ˈmɪnjuːɛt/), given in all Dictionaries, is now seldom heard.’ The pronunciation with stress on the final syllable is not recorded in dictionaries before the beginning of the 20th cent. Against N.E.D.'s comment one should set the fact that Webster records an alternative pronunciation with primary stress on the first syllable as late as 1954, and D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict. records a pronunciation with equal stress on the first and last syllables as late as 1967 (13th ed.). 1. a. A stately dance for two in triple time.The minuet originated in France in the latter part of the 17th cent. and was fashionable throughout Europe for much of the 18th cent., becoming increasingly complex and stylized. Some forms of the dance acquired more specific names, notably the minuet de la cour (see sense 1b). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > slow or stately dance > [noun] > specific pavanea1510 passamezzo1568 passy-measure1597 saraband1631 minuet1672 cerebrand1677 minaway1688 gavotte1696 passepied1696 minuetto1724 polonaise1740 polacca1804 minuetinga1847 varsovienne1859 varsoviana1860 Paduan1880 slow drag1911 strut1937 1672 E. Ravenscroft Citizen turn'd Gentleman i. i. 4 Well, now for my dancing, and because the Morning is far spent, I will only practise over the Minuets. 1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode iv. i. 64 I am fit for Nothing but low dancing now, a Corant, a Boreè, Or a Minnuét. 1702 J. Kersey New Eng. Dict. Menuet, a sort of dance. 1762 O. Goldsmith Life R. Nash 34 Each ball was to open with a minuet, danced by two persons of the highest distinction present. 1778 E. Montagu Let. 21 Feb. in J. Doran Lady of Last Century (1873) 231 To excel in dancing a minouet. 1810 A. Boswell Edinburgh 27 To walk a minuet with becoming grace. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 62 A stiff brocade in which..she, Once with this kinsman,..Stept thro' the stately minuet of those days. 1911 D. H. Lawrence White Peacock i. viii. 148 She made me take her through a valeta, a minuet, a mazurka, and she danced elegantly. 1980 E. Jong Fanny ii. xiii. 286 Whether we trod the Minuet or Rigadoon, or let fly our Feet in Jigs or Country Dances, each Step brought us closer to the inevitable Encounter betwixt the Bed-Clothes. 1993 Sat. Night (Toronto) June 32/3 The cakewalk, where blacks parodied the strut of whites walking, and upper-class dances like the minuet. b. minuet de la cour n. [ < French menuet de la Cour ‘Court minuet’] a popular variety of minuet. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > dance music > [noun] > others galliard1545 passamezzo1568 pavane1591 passy-measure1597 rant1656 passacaglia1659 passacaille1667 chaconne1685 rigadoon1690 passepied1696 rigaudon1708 bourrée1776 minuet de la cour1783 quadrille1802 treble1805 pigeon wing1807 polka1825 redowa1843 polka time1844 écossaise1863 verbunkos1880 drag1901 foxtrot1915 burru1929 rumba1931 palais glide1936 Lambeth Walk1937 jitterbug1939 high life1942 Zydeco1949 hand jive1958 hand jiving1958 hokey-cokey1966 twist1966 chicken scratch1972 smoocher1976 funana1981 New Beat1988 trance dance1988 1783 J. O'Keeffe Son-in-Law I. iv. 20 I am a compleat master of all the dances now used in the polite assemblies of Great Britain, from the Scotch Reel to the Minuet de la Cour. 1795 F. Reynolds Speculation II. i. 18 She said I might as well say one of my father's cows had been made to translate Greek, or dance the minuet de la Cour. 1873 C. B. Hartley Gentlemen's Bk. Etiquette 105 Time was when—as in the days of the minuet de la cour—the carriage constituted the dance. 1896 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 530/2 Miss Matty took her dainty steps in the menuets de la cour. 1915 F. M. Hueffer Good Soldier i. i. 10 You can't kill a minuet de la cour. You may shut up the music-book, [etc.]. 2. A piece of music played to accompany this dance. Subsequently also: a piece of music of similar rhythm and style, usually written for a suite or (later esp.) as a movement of a sonata or symphony, and typically having three sections of which the second is called a trio and the third is an abbreviated repeat of the first. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > dance music > [noun] > dances used as part of suite Almain1591 jig1593 coranto1597 courante1597 saraband1631 allemandec1639 minuet1678 gigue1685 gavotte1696 minuetto1724 giga1730 1678 J. Playford Musicks Hand-maid lxxiv. (heading) The New Minnet [sic]. 1686 London Gaz. No. 2119/4 There are designed to be published several Overtures or Sonatta's, containing Variety of Humors, as Grave Aires, Minuetts, Borees, &c. 1717 J. Gay Epist. W. Pulteney 144 He..Hums a soft minuet. 1762 T. Jefferson Let. 25 Dec. in Papers (1950) I. 4 They carried away..half a dozen new minuets I had just got. 1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. i. 36 As a dancing-master would, if he expected Orpheus should return to play a minuet to them. 1840 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 387/1 The term trio is also applied to a movement in ¾th time, which often follows the minuet in a piece of instrumental music. 1891 Queen 3 Jan. 18/3 Minuet in D (No. 1) is fairly interesting, Bourrée in G (No. 2) is rather wild. 1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xii. 195 ‘This is the dance for people who don't know how to dance!’ she cried. The tune changed to a minuet. 1961 A. Hopkins Talking about Symphonies iv. 61 The classic Menuet and Trio from which the scherzo form was derived. 1993 Classic CD Oct. 60/3 The German Dances and Minuets, originally written for domestic consumption by the Schubert family quartet. 3. figurative and in figurative context. ΚΠ 1863 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 137/2 Goethe..carefully stepped through the cumbrous minuet of court-life without impinging upon a single Serene or Well-born bunyon. 1915 F. M. Hueffer Good Soldier i. i. 10 That long, tranquil life, which was just stepping a minuet, vanished in four crashing days at the end of nine years and six weeks. 1954 C. S. Lewis Eng. Lit. in 16th Cent. i. i. 92 This minuet of conventions..enables the poem to remain recognizably occasional. 1975 Times 6 Jan. 7/2 The stately minuet of its university visitations..was replaced by..attention to balance sheets. 2001 N.Y. Times 17 May b1/1 There is an elaborate minuet in Albany, where passing a budget is a little like getting engaged. No engagement, no wedding. No budget, no action on legislation. Compounds General attributive. minuet dance n. ΚΠ 1765 W. Stevenson Orig. Poems II. 111 She moves along..In the smooth measures of the minuet-dance. 1831 T. Carlyle in Foreign Q. Rev. Oct. 351 The graceful minuet dance of Fancy. minuet-dancer n. ΚΠ 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 308. ¶6 John Trot..has the Assurance to set up for a Minuit-Dancer. 1880 Littell's Living Age 4 Sept. 630/1 Mademoiselle Vestris, the most graceful and languishing of all minuet-dancers. minuet dancing n. ΚΠ 1778 E. Montagu Let. in J. Doran Lady of Last Century (1873) x. 244 Minouet dancing is just now out of fashion. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge iv. 255 Sim..sprang from his seat, and in two extraordinary steps, something between skating and minuet dancing, bounded to a washing place. minuet form n. ΚΠ 1875 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Musical Form vii. 43 The original minuet form always consisted of a piece in triple time and of moderate speed. minuet step n. ΚΠ 1704 T. Baker Act at Oxf. ii. ii. 17 There's Beau Spider... He..goes out in a Minuet Step. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. iv. 177 Bellarmine rose from his Chair, traversed the Room in a Minuet Step, and humm'd an Opera Tune. View more context for this quotation 1897 Harper's Mag. Feb. 447/2 Grand dames..practised minuet steps and stately courtesies before their mirrors. 1960 M. Wood Advanced Historical Dances 28/2 Simple minuet step continuing round until the gentleman faces up the room and the lady down. minuet time n. ΚΠ 1765 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 12 Dec. (1932) (modernized text) VI. 2692 Do everything in minuet time, speak, think, and move always in that measure. 1823 W. Hazlitt Liber Amoris 27 You move in minuet-time: you measure every step. minuet tune n. ΚΠ 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xxiv. 136 He..returned with a violin, and struck up, as he entered, a minuet-tune. 1764 J. Boswell Jrnl. 3 Dec. in Boswell on Grand Tour (1953) I. 210 He taught me a French song..to a minuet tune. 1895 V. Lee in Littell's Living Age 31 Aug. 552/1 There are some verses of Verlaine's, which come to me always, on the melancholy minuet tune to which Monsieur Fauré has set them. Derivatives † minuetic adj. Obsolete Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1856 W. Bagehot Lit. Stud. (1879) II. 34 You should do everything, said Lord Chesterfield, in minuet time. It was in that time that Gibbon wrote his history... You perceive the minuetic action accompanying the words. † minuetish adj. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xvi. 114 A Glut of minuitish Airs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). minuetv. Brit. /ˌmɪnjʊˈɛt/, U.S. /ˌmɪnjəˈwɛt/ Inflections: Past participle minueted, minuetted; Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: minuet n. Etymology: < minuet n. Compare slightly earlier minueting n. intransitive. To dance a minuet; to move by or as if by dancing a minuet. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > slow or stately dance > dance [verb (intransitive)] > specific dances gavotte1819 polonaise1828 minuet1890 slow-drag1934 strut1975 1853 Harper's Mag. Nov. 722/1 If she [sc. a ship] minced and minuetted down the river, she is leaving it in a gallopade. 1881 G. M. Hopkins Lett. to R. Bridges (1955) 125 The magic nib has..minuetted and gavotted into the syllables of your name. 1890 Temple Bar Feb. 297 Twenty years ago people minuet-ed. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 535 Watch me! My terpsichorean abilities. (He minuets forward three paces on tripping bee's feet.) 1972 Newsweek 17 July 21/3 MacGregor might have to minuet with White House aides for a Presidential audience. 1991 P. Slater Dream Deferred ii. xi. 133 The official can minuet out of the shadows without ever once telling the truth or admitting personal guilt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1672v.1853
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minuetn.

Compounds

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minuetv.