| 单词 | to tread a measure |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto tread a measure a. A dance, esp. a grave or stately one; often in to tread a measure. Formerly also: †a step of a dance (obsolete). Now archaic and historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > [noun] > a dance chore1382 dance1393 measure?c1430 virlyc1430 tracec1450 platfoot1559 hop-about1593 firk1637 footing1652 ballet1786 stand-up1861 society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > slow or stately dance > [noun] measure?c1430 base dancea1475 pas grave1762 basse danse1789 slow dance1890 slowie2002 ?c1430 J. Lydgate Daunce Machabree (Huntington) 508 This new daunce is to me so straunge..The dredful fotyng dothe so ofte chaunge, And the mesures so ofte sithes varie. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xvi. xix To daunce true mesures without varyaunce. 1584 J. Lyly Alexander, Campaspe, & Diogenes iv. iii. sig. E2v To tread the measures in a daunce. 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. K3 Where fair Semiramis..Hath trode the Meisures. a1616 [see sense 16a]. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 170 All Heaven..in Celestial measures mov'd, Circling the Throne and Singing. View more context for this quotation 1808 W. Scott Marmion v. xii. 159 Now tread we a measure! said young Lochinvar. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 44 And dancers leave the cheerful measure To seek the Lady's missing treasure. 1888 W. E. Henley Bk. Verses 28 Kate the scrubber..treads a measure. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. iii. 27 She..participated with a certain zest in the dancing..treading a measure purely for its own sake. 1922 A. E. Housman Last Poems xli Content..to wind the measures. 1994 Early Music 22 433/2 The measures were a late 16th-century derivation of the French basse danse. < as lemmas |
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