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polonaise /ˌpɒləˈneɪz /noun1A slow dance of Polish origin in triple time, consisting chiefly of an intricate march or procession: a polonaise and mazurka danced by the Theatre’s famous ballet school...- Between polonaises and mazurkas, character teacher David Boyet emphasizes artistry as he demonstrates epaulement.
- The film ends with Poles dancing their traditional polonaise to celebrate a military victory over the Russians.
- We then launch into the polonaise, which is where I have a bit of a problem with this choreography.
1.1A piece of music for the polonaise: he played a polonaise by Chopin...- Sixteen preparatory pieces, such as preludes, études, bagatelles, barcarolles, nocturnes and polonaises, present, reinforce and prepare students for what is coming next.
- The most extraordinary musical evocation is undoubtedly the rendering of a John Cleese prose poem by the Monty Python Team (in the film The Meaning of Life) that tells the life of Cromwell set to the music of a polonaise by Chopin.
- There are, for example, a polka, a fughetta, a rondo, a rondino, an impromptu, a mazurka, a barcarolle, two arabesques, a ragtime, three polonaises, a tango and a rumba, not to mention a sequence of four nocturnes.
2 historical A woman’s dress with a tight bodice and a skirt open from the waist downwards, looped up to show a decorative underskirt: a black velvet polonaise with jet buttons...- They'll cut you up like spare ribbons on Mademoiselle Jebraiel's polonaise!
- The polonaise was usually cut like a princess dress, without a waist seam, and often differed from it only in that it was not full length.
- Her lips were a red of the same tint, as was the polonaise she was so daintily flaunting - over which, she wore a black cloak.
adjective(Of a dish) garnished with chopped hard-boiled egg yolk, breadcrumbs, and parsley: polonaise sauce and trout sauce are specially made...- I took the roast fillet of beef in a parsley crust with asparagus polonaise and turnip and turned carrots.
- Other egg sauces include those in which chopped hard-cooked eggs are an ingredient such as Polonaise Sauce.
OriginMid 18th century: from French, feminine of polonais 'Polish', from medieval Latin Polonia 'Poland'. Rhymesablaze, amaze, appraise, baize, Blaise, blaze, braise, broderie anglaise, chaise, craze, daze, écossaise, erase, faze, gaze, glaze, graze, Hayes, Hays, haze, laze, liaise, lyonnaise, maize, malaise, Marseillaise, mayonnaise, Mays, maze, phase, phrase, praise, prase, raise, raze, upraise |