Pavan
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pavan is a noun meaning Alternative form of pavane (“musical style and dance”).
Meaning
Alternative form of pavane (“musical style and dance”).
Example Sentences
And he tasted in the language of memory ambered wines, dying fallings of sweet airs, the proud pavan: and saw with the eyes of memory kind gentlewomen in Covent Garden wooing from their balconies with sucking mouths and the pox fouled wenches of the taverns and young wives that, gaily yielding to their ravishers, clipped and clipped again.
Word Forms
- pavans
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