Definitions for pavanes

pavanes pa·vane

Spelling: [puh-vahn, -van; French pa<
IPA: /pəˈvɑn, -ˈvæn; French paˈvan/

Pavanes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in pavanes (aaenpsv).

Definitions for pavanes

noun

  1. a stately dance dating from the 16th century.
  2. the music for this dance.

Origin of pavanes

1525-35; Middle French Italian pavana, contraction of padovana (feminine) of Padua (Italian Padova)

Examples for pavanes

She had learnt the 'Prelude,' and had had one lesson, a fortnight before, on the 'pavane.'

That thought had been growing, and the gavotte, the courante, the pavane becoming rehearsals.

He was enraptured to find her in so winning a mood that he proposed a pavane.

But laughing voices approached; and two girls and two young men, dressed up, for the pavane, as Henri IV.

The musicians now struck the opening chords to the third and final measure of the pavane.

Will you honour us by stepping the pavane with us, Marquise?

"They are going to dance the pavane almost at once," she murmured.

After the pavane came the Courante, a court dance performed on tiptoe with slightly jumping steps and many bows and curtseys.

“They are going to dance the pavane almost at once,” she murmured.

They are to dance a pavane in the ball-room and I have to ask for instructions and hand them on.

Word Value for pavanes
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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