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noun music composed for dancing the pavane
noun a stately court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries
originFrom French pavane, from dialectal Italian pavana, contraction of the older padovana, feminine of padovano, meaning from the city of Padua (Italian Padova, dialectal form Pava).
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