(n.) A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.
(n.) A figure in dancing.
Example Sentences:
(1) It showed Cohn-Bendit smiling manically, as Dennis the Menace, with a caption: “Nous sommes tous les juifs allemands”.
(2) There were a dozen bodies around us.” Nice-Matin journalist Damien Allemand, who was on the waterfront, saw the vehicle swerve, smashing into people “at a crazy speed”.
Alman
Definition:
(n.) A German.
(adj.) German.
(adj.) The German language.
(adj.) A kind of dance. See Allemande.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nearby, guards waited furtively at the entrance to the Islamic mourning tent for Sheikh Alman al-Shijah, blown apart last Friday by a bomb placed under his car.
(2) The paper reports on the bioavailability of niphedipine in various pharmaceutic preparations administered in a single dose of 10 mg, per os, to volunteer subjects: Niphedipine dragees (Terapia, Cluj-Napoca), Adalat capsules (Bayer); Adalat coated tablets (Bayer and Birlaşik Alman Ilac Fabricalari, Istanbul) and Corinfar dragées (VEB Arzneimittelwerk, Dresden).
(3) Sheikh Alman was a leader of the Sons of Iraq, the lauded band of rebels who helped turn the tide of the insurgency from 2006, in many eyes saving Iraq from the abyss.