Definitions for minuets

minuets min·u·et

Spelling: [min-yoo-et]
IPA: /ˌmɪn yuˈɛt/

Minuets is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 213 anagrams from letters in minuets (eimnstu).

Definitions for minuets

noun

  1. a slow, stately dance in triple meter, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries.
  2. a piece of music for such a dance or in its rhythm.

Origin of minuets

1665-75; French menuet, equivalent to menu small (see menu) + -et -et; so called from the shortness of the dancers' steps

Examples for minuets

One, who recognized Judith, swept his aside with a gesture appropriate to a minuet.

It's just a minuet—reconnoissance of Frémont and Dick Taylor!

A minuet, taken scherzando, is also most original and happy.

After the minuet I danced twelve forlanas with the greatest vigour.

I must then forgive his ignorance of the minuet and quadrilles.

I had never seen the minuet danced with more grace and spirit.

The minuet from Beethoven's Eighth Symphony is a notable example.

The first was the private, then public, minuet of reassurances to the two visitors.

The orchestra began to fill the room with the strains of the minuet.

I say, mother, do you remember teaching me to dance a minuet, when I was little?

Word Value for minuets
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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