Definition of minuet in English:

minuet

nounPlural minuets mɪnjʊˈɛtˌmɪnjəˈwɛt

1A slow, stately ballroom dance for two in triple time, popular especially in the 18th century.
米奴哀舞，小步舞
Example sentencesExamples
- In the show's finale, boys and girls from Beckfield Lane and Burton Stone Lane schools danced a minuet on the floodlit steps of the museum.
- All the colour and grace of the eighteenth century was seen at its best during the dancing of the minuet.
- Ali began the minuet in time to the music, catching Andrew - who was still glaring at the Duke - by surprise.
- ‘The mob may sack Versailles; the Trianon may fall, but surely the minuet-the minuet itself is dancing itself away into the furthest stars’.
- Louie, who dances a shaky minuet if properly guided, seemed like a shoo-in.
- He indicates that the Irish dances were fine, as long as there was not enough room for the more refined movements of the polka, quadrille, or minuet.
- Under the direction of instructor Shirley Agate-Proust from the Alberta Ballet School of Dance, a group of dancers in period costumes will recreate baroque dances including a minuet and a gavotte.
- Her surviving hymn to the goddess, arranged by La Motte, serves as the sung text underlying the sacred ritual of the minuet.
- Mr. Gregory clapped his hands as the frustrated students tried to master the steps of the waltz or minuet.
- He was also one of the leading teachers of the day, counting among his pupils Didelot, Perrot, Elssler, Bournonville, and Marie Taglioni, with whom he performed a minuet at the Paris Opera in 1835, when he was 75.
- This was a real ball, the music playing was suited to waltzes and minuets, and it was amusing for Angelique to see how the groups were once more separated.
- He also celebrates the minuet, of all dances the one that most clearly captures the blend of pastoral elegance and amorous desire that becomes synonymous with the ballet itself.
1. 1.1 A piece of music in triple time in the style of a minuet, typically as a movement in a suite, sonata, or symphony and frequently coupled with a trio.
  米奴哀舞曲，小步舞曲
  Example sentencesExamples
  After the elegant minuet, the finale's explosive power was unleashed with impressive panache and energy.
  Touches are varied, legato, staccato - at times both used together in separate hands, and forms include simple sonata form, minuet, rondo, and theme and variations.
  The second movement, ‘Smooth Sailing,’ features delicate right-hand and left-hand phrasing that is characteristic of a minuet.
  Before Althea Gibson punctured the color barrier of women's tennis 52 years ago, the sport was a genteel game played with the tempo of a minuet and the athleticism of couch potatoes.
  This pair of movements was sometimes followed by a moderately slow dance movement (as in the minuet in Handel's overture to Samson), or the entire first section might be repeated.
  From Beethoven onwards the traditional place of the minuet in symphonies and chamber music began to be taken over by the scherzo.
  Excitingly articulate horn playing, lovely solo passages from section-leaders, refined tutti playing, and a musically shaped minuet all contributed to a thoroughly sparkling performance.
  While the Andantio in the Opus 45 Symphony is grave and vaguely troubling, the mood quickly dissipates with a reassuring minuet.
  Op. 54 is in two movements, minuet and a kind of perpetuum mobile, often referred to as a toccata: its form and style can't be found elsewhere in Beethoven.
  Its tempo is a little faster than a minuet, which Bach indicated by 3/8 instead of the standard minuet meter of 3 / 4.
  He said that white people would still be dancing to minuets on tippy toes if it weren't for black music.
  She essentially turns the movement into both minuet and gigue and metamorphs one to the other without any sense of break at all.
  The muffled sound of the melodic minuet being played by the orchestra could be heard behind the French doors that had been tightly shut.
  The minuet character of the music, and the polka quotations, are displayed by the alternating, more static, poses of individual female dancers, with a pas de deux of male and female to provide a more rustic appearance.
  As ever, I wanted some tunes to take away, apart from bits of airs (with a minuet as a slight leitmotiv) of contemporary style.

verbminuets, minueted, minueting mɪnjʊˈɛtˌmɪnjəˈwɛt

[no object]

Dance a minuet.
跳米奴哀舞，跳小步舞
Example sentencesExamples
- They marched, minueted, clambered and flipped up and down backs, and skipped with their partners folk- dance style.
- The play's prologue, in yet another fully stretched example, is delivered in contemporary attire, before the cast minueting in period costumes.

Origin

Late 17th century: from French menuet, 'fine, delicate', diminutive (used as a noun) of menu 'small'.

menu from mid 19th century:
When people first used menu in English they treated it as a foreign word, printing it in italic type, and perhaps pronouncing it in a ‘French’ way. The word means ‘detailed list’ in French, and is a use of menu ‘small, detailed’ from Latin minutus ‘small’, the source of minute, mince, minutiae (mid 18th century) ‘small, precise or trivial details’, the delicate dance the minuet (late 17th century), and diminish. Applied to a list of dishes available in a restaurant, it dates from the mid 19th century; by the 20th it was fully anglicized, and by the 1960s could also mean ‘a list of facilities or commands displayed on a computer screen’.

Rhymes

abet, aiguillette, anisette, Annette, Antoinette, arête, Arlette, ate, baguette, banquette, barbette, barrette, basinet, bassinet, beget, Bernadette, beset, bet, Bette, blanquette, Brett, briquette, brochette, brunette (US brunet), Burnett, cadet, caravanette, cassette, castanet, charette, cigarette (US cigaret), clarinet, Claudette, Colette, coquette, corvette, couchette, courgette, croquette, curette, curvet, Debrett, debt, dinette, diskette, duet, epaulette (US epaulet), flageolet, flannelette, forget, fret, galette, gazette, Georgette, get, godet, grisette, heavyset, Jeanette, jet, kitchenette, La Fayette, landaulet, launderette, layette, lazaret, leatherette, let, Lett, lorgnette, luncheonette, lunette, Lynette, maisonette, majorette, maquette, Marie-Antoinette, marionette, Marquette, marquisette, martinet, met, minaret, moquette, motet, musette, Nanette, net, noisette, nonet, novelette, nymphet, octet, Odette, on-set, oubliette, Paulette, pet, Phuket, picquet, pillaret, pincette, pipette, piquet, pirouette, planchette, pochette, quartet, quickset, quintet, regret, ret, Rhett, roomette, rosette, roulette, satinette, septet, serviette, sestet, set, sett, sextet, silhouette, soubrette, spinet, spinneret, statuette, stet, stockinet, sublet, suffragette, Suzette, sweat, thickset, threat, Tibet, toilette, tret, underlet, upset, usherette, vedette, vet, vignette, vinaigrette, wagonette, wet, whet, winceyette, yet, Yvette

Definition of minuet in US English:

minuet

nounˌminyəˈwetˌmɪnjəˈwɛt

1A slow, stately ballroom dance for two in triple time, popular especially in the 18th century.
米奴哀舞，小步舞
Example sentencesExamples
- In the show's finale, boys and girls from Beckfield Lane and Burton Stone Lane schools danced a minuet on the floodlit steps of the museum.
- Her surviving hymn to the goddess, arranged by La Motte, serves as the sung text underlying the sacred ritual of the minuet.
- He was also one of the leading teachers of the day, counting among his pupils Didelot, Perrot, Elssler, Bournonville, and Marie Taglioni, with whom he performed a minuet at the Paris Opera in 1835, when he was 75.
- Louie, who dances a shaky minuet if properly guided, seemed like a shoo-in.
- He indicates that the Irish dances were fine, as long as there was not enough room for the more refined movements of the polka, quadrille, or minuet.
- This was a real ball, the music playing was suited to waltzes and minuets, and it was amusing for Angelique to see how the groups were once more separated.
- Ali began the minuet in time to the music, catching Andrew - who was still glaring at the Duke - by surprise.
- All the colour and grace of the eighteenth century was seen at its best during the dancing of the minuet.
- ‘The mob may sack Versailles; the Trianon may fall, but surely the minuet-the minuet itself is dancing itself away into the furthest stars’.
- He also celebrates the minuet, of all dances the one that most clearly captures the blend of pastoral elegance and amorous desire that becomes synonymous with the ballet itself.
- Under the direction of instructor Shirley Agate-Proust from the Alberta Ballet School of Dance, a group of dancers in period costumes will recreate baroque dances including a minuet and a gavotte.
- Mr. Gregory clapped his hands as the frustrated students tried to master the steps of the waltz or minuet.
1. 1.1 A piece of music in triple time in the style of a minuet, typically as a movement in a suite, sonata, or symphony and frequently coupled with a trio.
  米奴哀舞曲，小步舞曲
  Example sentencesExamples
  After the elegant minuet, the finale's explosive power was unleashed with impressive panache and energy.
  The minuet character of the music, and the polka quotations, are displayed by the alternating, more static, poses of individual female dancers, with a pas de deux of male and female to provide a more rustic appearance.
  While the Andantio in the Opus 45 Symphony is grave and vaguely troubling, the mood quickly dissipates with a reassuring minuet.
  From Beethoven onwards the traditional place of the minuet in symphonies and chamber music began to be taken over by the scherzo.
  She essentially turns the movement into both minuet and gigue and metamorphs one to the other without any sense of break at all.
  This pair of movements was sometimes followed by a moderately slow dance movement (as in the minuet in Handel's overture to Samson), or the entire first section might be repeated.
  The second movement, ‘Smooth Sailing,’ features delicate right-hand and left-hand phrasing that is characteristic of a minuet.
  Touches are varied, legato, staccato - at times both used together in separate hands, and forms include simple sonata form, minuet, rondo, and theme and variations.
  As ever, I wanted some tunes to take away, apart from bits of airs (with a minuet as a slight leitmotiv) of contemporary style.
  Op. 54 is in two movements, minuet and a kind of perpetuum mobile, often referred to as a toccata: its form and style can't be found elsewhere in Beethoven.
  Excitingly articulate horn playing, lovely solo passages from section-leaders, refined tutti playing, and a musically shaped minuet all contributed to a thoroughly sparkling performance.
  Its tempo is a little faster than a minuet, which Bach indicated by 3/8 instead of the standard minuet meter of 3 / 4.
  He said that white people would still be dancing to minuets on tippy toes if it weren't for black music.
  Before Althea Gibson punctured the color barrier of women's tennis 52 years ago, the sport was a genteel game played with the tempo of a minuet and the athleticism of couch potatoes.
  The muffled sound of the melodic minuet being played by the orchestra could be heard behind the French doors that had been tightly shut.

verbˌminyəˈwetˌmɪnjəˈwɛt

[no object]

Dance a minuet.
跳米奴哀舞，跳小步舞
Example sentencesExamples
- The play's prologue, in yet another fully stretched example, is delivered in contemporary attire, before the cast minueting in period costumes.
- They marched, minueted, clambered and flipped up and down backs, and skipped with their partners folk- dance style.

Origin

Late 17th century: from French menuet, ‘fine, delicate’, diminutive (used as a noun) of menu ‘small’.

词汇	minuet
释义	Definition of minuet in English: minuet nounPlural minuets mɪnjʊˈɛtˌmɪnjəˈwɛt 1A slow, stately ballroom dance for two in triple time, popular especially in the 18th century. 米奴哀舞，小步舞 Example sentencesExamples In the show's finale, boys and girls from Beckfield Lane and Burton Stone Lane schools danced a minuet on the floodlit steps of the museum. All the colour and grace of the eighteenth century was seen at its best during the dancing of the minuet. Ali began the minuet in time to the music, catching Andrew - who was still glaring at the Duke - by surprise. ‘The mob may sack Versailles; the Trianon may fall, but surely the minuet-the minuet itself is dancing itself away into the furthest stars’. Louie, who dances a shaky minuet if properly guided, seemed like a shoo-in. He indicates that the Irish dances were fine, as long as there was not enough room for the more refined movements of the polka, quadrille, or minuet. Under the direction of instructor Shirley Agate-Proust from the Alberta Ballet School of Dance, a group of dancers in period costumes will recreate baroque dances including a minuet and a gavotte. Her surviving hymn to the goddess, arranged by La Motte, serves as the sung text underlying the sacred ritual of the minuet. Mr. Gregory clapped his hands as the frustrated students tried to master the steps of the waltz or minuet. He was also one of the leading teachers of the day, counting among his pupils Didelot, Perrot, Elssler, Bournonville, and Marie Taglioni, with whom he performed a minuet at the Paris Opera in 1835, when he was 75. This was a real ball, the music playing was suited to waltzes and minuets, and it was amusing for Angelique to see how the groups were once more separated. He also celebrates the minuet, of all dances the one that most clearly captures the blend of pastoral elegance and amorous desire that becomes synonymous with the ballet itself. 1.1 A piece of music in triple time in the style of a minuet, typically as a movement in a suite, sonata, or symphony and frequently coupled with a trio. 米奴哀舞曲，小步舞曲 Example sentencesExamples After the elegant minuet, the finale's explosive power was unleashed with impressive panache and energy. Touches are varied, legato, staccato - at times both used together in separate hands, and forms include simple sonata form, minuet, rondo, and theme and variations. The second movement, ‘Smooth Sailing,’ features delicate right-hand and left-hand phrasing that is characteristic of a minuet. Before Althea Gibson punctured the color barrier of women's tennis 52 years ago, the sport was a genteel game played with the tempo of a minuet and the athleticism of couch potatoes. This pair of movements was sometimes followed by a moderately slow dance movement (as in the minuet in Handel's overture to Samson), or the entire first section might be repeated. From Beethoven onwards the traditional place of the minuet in symphonies and chamber music began to be taken over by the scherzo. Excitingly articulate horn playing, lovely solo passages from section-leaders, refined tutti playing, and a musically shaped minuet all contributed to a thoroughly sparkling performance. While the Andantio in the Opus 45 Symphony is grave and vaguely troubling, the mood quickly dissipates with a reassuring minuet. Op. 54 is in two movements, minuet and a kind of perpetuum mobile, often referred to as a toccata: its form and style can't be found elsewhere in Beethoven. Its tempo is a little faster than a minuet, which Bach indicated by 3/8 instead of the standard minuet meter of 3 / 4. He said that white people would still be dancing to minuets on tippy toes if it weren't for black music. She essentially turns the movement into both minuet and gigue and metamorphs one to the other without any sense of break at all. The muffled sound of the melodic minuet being played by the orchestra could be heard behind the French doors that had been tightly shut. The minuet character of the music, and the polka quotations, are displayed by the alternating, more static, poses of individual female dancers, with a pas de deux of male and female to provide a more rustic appearance. As ever, I wanted some tunes to take away, apart from bits of airs (with a minuet as a slight leitmotiv) of contemporary style. verbminuets, minueted, minueting mɪnjʊˈɛtˌmɪnjəˈwɛt [no object] Dance a minuet. 跳米奴哀舞，跳小步舞 Example sentencesExamples They marched, minueted, clambered and flipped up and down backs, and skipped with their partners folk- dance style. The play's prologue, in yet another fully stretched example, is delivered in contemporary attire, before the cast minueting in period costumes. Origin Late 17th century: from French menuet, 'fine, delicate', diminutive (used as a noun) of menu 'small'. menu from mid 19th century: When people first used menu in English they treated it as a foreign word, printing it in italic type, and perhaps pronouncing it in a ‘French’ way. The word means ‘detailed list’ in French, and is a use of menu ‘small, detailed’ from Latin minutus ‘small’, the source of minute, mince, minutiae (mid 18th century) ‘small, precise or trivial details’, the delicate dance the minuet (late 17th century), and diminish. Applied to a list of dishes available in a restaurant, it dates from the mid 19th century; by the 20th it was fully anglicized, and by the 1960s could also mean ‘a list of facilities or commands displayed on a computer screen’. Rhymes abet, aiguillette, anisette, Annette, Antoinette, arête, Arlette, ate, baguette, banquette, barbette, barrette, basinet, bassinet, beget, Bernadette, beset, bet, Bette, blanquette, Brett, briquette, brochette, brunette (US brunet), Burnett, cadet, caravanette, cassette, castanet, charette, cigarette (US cigaret), clarinet, Claudette, Colette, coquette, corvette, couchette, courgette, croquette, curette, curvet, Debrett, debt, dinette, diskette, duet, epaulette (US epaulet), flageolet, flannelette, forget, fret, galette, gazette, Georgette, get, godet, grisette, heavyset, Jeanette, jet, kitchenette, La Fayette, landaulet, launderette, layette, lazaret, leatherette, let, Lett, lorgnette, luncheonette, lunette, Lynette, maisonette, majorette, maquette, Marie-Antoinette, marionette, Marquette, marquisette, martinet, met, minaret, moquette, motet, musette, Nanette, net, noisette, nonet, novelette, nymphet, octet, Odette, on-set, oubliette, Paulette, pet, Phuket, picquet, pillaret, pincette, pipette, piquet, pirouette, planchette, pochette, quartet, quickset, quintet, regret, ret, Rhett, roomette, rosette, roulette, satinette, septet, serviette, sestet, set, sett, sextet, silhouette, soubrette, spinet, spinneret, statuette, stet, stockinet, sublet, suffragette, Suzette, sweat, thickset, threat, Tibet, toilette, tret, underlet, upset, usherette, vedette, vet, vignette, vinaigrette, wagonette, wet, whet, winceyette, yet, Yvette Definition of minuet in US English: minuet nounˌminyəˈwetˌmɪnjəˈwɛt 1A slow, stately ballroom dance for two in triple time, popular especially in the 18th century. 米奴哀舞，小步舞 Example sentencesExamples In the show's finale, boys and girls from Beckfield Lane and Burton Stone Lane schools danced a minuet on the floodlit steps of the museum. Her surviving hymn to the goddess, arranged by La Motte, serves as the sung text underlying the sacred ritual of the minuet. He was also one of the leading teachers of the day, counting among his pupils Didelot, Perrot, Elssler, Bournonville, and Marie Taglioni, with whom he performed a minuet at the Paris Opera in 1835, when he was 75. Louie, who dances a shaky minuet if properly guided, seemed like a shoo-in. He indicates that the Irish dances were fine, as long as there was not enough room for the more refined movements of the polka, quadrille, or minuet. This was a real ball, the music playing was suited to waltzes and minuets, and it was amusing for Angelique to see how the groups were once more separated. Ali began the minuet in time to the music, catching Andrew - who was still glaring at the Duke - by surprise. All the colour and grace of the eighteenth century was seen at its best during the dancing of the minuet. ‘The mob may sack Versailles; the Trianon may fall, but surely the minuet-the minuet itself is dancing itself away into the furthest stars’. He also celebrates the minuet, of all dances the one that most clearly captures the blend of pastoral elegance and amorous desire that becomes synonymous with the ballet itself. Under the direction of instructor Shirley Agate-Proust from the Alberta Ballet School of Dance, a group of dancers in period costumes will recreate baroque dances including a minuet and a gavotte. Mr. Gregory clapped his hands as the frustrated students tried to master the steps of the waltz or minuet. 1.1 A piece of music in triple time in the style of a minuet, typically as a movement in a suite, sonata, or symphony and frequently coupled with a trio. 米奴哀舞曲，小步舞曲 Example sentencesExamples After the elegant minuet, the finale's explosive power was unleashed with impressive panache and energy. The minuet character of the music, and the polka quotations, are displayed by the alternating, more static, poses of individual female dancers, with a pas de deux of male and female to provide a more rustic appearance. While the Andantio in the Opus 45 Symphony is grave and vaguely troubling, the mood quickly dissipates with a reassuring minuet. From Beethoven onwards the traditional place of the minuet in symphonies and chamber music began to be taken over by the scherzo. She essentially turns the movement into both minuet and gigue and metamorphs one to the other without any sense of break at all. This pair of movements was sometimes followed by a moderately slow dance movement (as in the minuet in Handel's overture to Samson), or the entire first section might be repeated. The second movement, ‘Smooth Sailing,’ features delicate right-hand and left-hand phrasing that is characteristic of a minuet. Touches are varied, legato, staccato - at times both used together in separate hands, and forms include simple sonata form, minuet, rondo, and theme and variations. As ever, I wanted some tunes to take away, apart from bits of airs (with a minuet as a slight leitmotiv) of contemporary style. Op. 54 is in two movements, minuet and a kind of perpetuum mobile, often referred to as a toccata: its form and style can't be found elsewhere in Beethoven. Excitingly articulate horn playing, lovely solo passages from section-leaders, refined tutti playing, and a musically shaped minuet all contributed to a thoroughly sparkling performance. Its tempo is a little faster than a minuet, which Bach indicated by 3/8 instead of the standard minuet meter of 3 / 4. He said that white people would still be dancing to minuets on tippy toes if it weren't for black music. Before Althea Gibson punctured the color barrier of women's tennis 52 years ago, the sport was a genteel game played with the tempo of a minuet and the athleticism of couch potatoes. The muffled sound of the melodic minuet being played by the orchestra could be heard behind the French doors that had been tightly shut. verbˌminyəˈwetˌmɪnjəˈwɛt [no object] Dance a minuet. 跳米奴哀舞，跳小步舞 Example sentencesExamples The play's prologue, in yet another fully stretched example, is delivered in contemporary attire, before the cast minueting in period costumes. They marched, minueted, clambered and flipped up and down backs, and skipped with their partners folk- dance style. Origin Late 17th century: from French menuet, ‘fine, delicate’, diminutive (used as a noun) of menu ‘small’.
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