Definitions for corantoes

corantoes co·ran·to

Spelling: [kuh-ran-toh, -rahn-, koh-]
IPA: /kəˈræn toʊ, -ˈrɑn-, koʊ-/

Corantoes is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 768 anagrams from letters in corantoes (acenoorst).

Definitions for corantoes

noun

  1. courante.

Origin of corantoes

1615-25; earlier carranta Italian cor(r)anta French courante courante

Examples for corantoes

She would dance a coranto, that the French Ambassador, hidden behind a curtain, might report her sprightliness to his master.

Then Charles, with ready grace, would begin the coranto, taking a single lady in this dance along the gallery.

I thought Sir you wou'd have been more open-handed, I sell no coranto's at such rates.

The passamezzo, passy-measure or half-measure was a popular Elizabethan dance, like the coranto and lavolta.

Even the Pope (I speak in all reverence) must play billiards or trip a coranto now and then!

Why dost thou not go to church in a galliard, and come home in a coranto?

Morley speaks of the Volte, and says it is characterised by 'rising and leaping,' and is of the same 'measure' as a coranto.

Word Value for corantoes
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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