† branslen.
Obsolete.
1. Movement, perturbation. rare. (= brangle n.1 1, branle n. 1.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun]
winOE
disturbance1297
perturbingc1395
motiona1398
stirrage1513
turmoil1526
disquietness1535
buskling1546
jumbling1562
agitation1569
working1575
tumult1580
commotion1592
emotion1594
turbulence1598
bransle1603
pother1603
tumultuousnessa1617
unevennessa1637
unquietudea1639
disquietal1642
tumbling1660
disquietude1709
rouse1764
maelstrom1834
peacelessness1852
stir-up1900
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. ix. 599 Observe..the motions and bransles of the heavens.
2. A kind of dance; also, a song for dance music. (= brangle n.1 2, branle n. 2, brantle n.)
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
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. x. sig. Mm2 Now making layes of loue..Bransles, Ballads, virelayes.
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 181 The bransle de poictou or bransle double is more quick in time..but the straine is longer, containing most vsually twelue whole strokes.
1662 S. Pepys Diary 31 Dec. (1970) III. 300 They danced the Bransle.
1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein 344 The youthful couple went off to take their place in the bransle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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