minuet

A minuet: typically 'a stately dance in triple time' (Bridgeman images) The origins of the minuet – a stately dance in triple time – are blurred. Its name may derive from the French 'menu' ('slender'), denoting the small, neat steps of the dance.

Courtly Dance A Courtly Dance This musical form and style originated in a dance in triple time and moderate tempo. 'Minuet' is adapted from the Italian word 'minuetto' meaning small, pretty and delicate. During it's most fashionable period the minuet was a slow, soft and courtly dance.

minuet, (from French menu, “small”), elegant couple dance that dominated aristocratic European ballrooms, especially in France and England, from about 1650 to about 1750.

Minuet comes from the French word menuet, meaning fine, delicate, small, narrow. Minute has two meanings. 1.) When the accent is on the second syllable, miNUTE, it functions as an adjective meaning small, tiny, insignificant. The noun form is minuteness.

minute Definitions of min. a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour. synonyms: minute.

minuet in American English 1. a slow, stately dance for groups of couples, introduced in France in the 17th cent. 2. the music for this, in 3/4 time: often a movement of certain musical compositions. Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition.

A minuet is an elegant dance in triple time. We're bipedal animals. Even if you have the proverbial two left feet you can probably dance something in four-time. But to make elegant patterns in three-time with two feet demanded elegance, poise.

'Minute' signifies a time period consisting of sixty seconds. Additionally, it refers to small and tiny details of things. 'Minuet', however, is a form of dancing and music especially in the 18th century.

1. extremely small, as in size, amount, extent, or degree. minute differences. 2. of minor importance; insignificant; trifling.

Minutus is the Latin word for "small," and it gave rise to both the adjective minute (my-NOOT), or incredibly small, and the noun minute (MIN-it), or 60 seconds of time. Though they are pronounced differently, both words refer to small measurements.

adjective. If you say that something is minute, you mean that it is very small. Only a minute amount is needed. Synonyms: small, little, tiny, miniature More Synonyms of minute.

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English at a/the minimumused to say that if nothing else is done, this one thing should be done At a minimum, we must recruit two new teachers.