Definitions for sarabands

sarabands sar·a·band

Spelling: [sar-uh-band]
IPA: /ˈsær əˌbænd/

Sarabands is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 204 anagrams from letters in sarabands (aaabdnrss).

Definitions for sarabands

noun

  1. a slow, stately Spanish dance, especially of the 17th and 18th centuries, in triple meter, derived from a vigorous castanet dance.
  2. a piece of music for or using the rhythm of this dance, usually forming one of the movements in the classical suite and following the courante.

Origin of sarabands

1610-20; French sarabande Spanish zarabanda, perhaps Arabic sarband a kind of dance Persian

Examples for sarabands

A saraband lends itself to a serious and even solemn turn of thought.

Anne bade him prove it by dressing as a circus clown and dancing a saraband for her.

During this time also the ceremonial ball (with all its elaborate detail of courante, minuet and saraband) was cultivated.

On the contrary, I shall walk jocund and erect, with a laughing eye and a dancing leg, when you are long past laugh or saraband.

saraband (Serebend) rugs are woven in the district of Sarawan.

I wondered whether the Orissa's fife might not have had something to do with the saraband of the wild waves we encountered.

But I have read that M. le Cardinal de Richelieu danced a saraband.

saraband—palm leaf or India shawl design on rose or blue ground.

They resemble in their field and in the firm texture the saraband rug, the palm-leaf design being arranged throughout the field.

Another extremely popular dance was the saraband, which, however, died out after the 17th century.

Word Value for sarabands
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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