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polonaise

[ UK /pˌɒlənˈe‍ɪz/ ]
[ US /ˌpɑɫəˈneɪz/ ]
NOUN
  1. a woman's dress with a tight bodice and an overskirt drawn back to reveal a colorful underskirt

How To Use polonaise In A Sentence

  • Other egg sauces include those in which chopped hard-cooked eggs are an ingredient such as Polonaise Sauce.
  • Sixteen preparatory pieces, such as preludes, études, bagatelles, barcarolles, nocturnes and polonaises, present, reinforce and prepare students for what is coming next.
  • Every now and then they stretch to a nocturne (average running time: five minutes) or polonaise (around six minutes), but seldom a ballade (close to ten).
  • The polonaise was usually cut like a princess dress, without a waist seam, and often differed from it only in that it was not full length.
  • The forthright, hip-gyrating dance for the array of disco-dancing and drink-swigging Brits is set tightly on the polonaise Tchaikovsky called a "dance with goblets," albeit, in the original, wine-filled ones toasting that libretto's prince. Fair Feathered Friends
  • May I have the honor of the polonaise?
  • Together with the Fantaisie Polonaise, it typically expresses his strong nationalistic beliefs.
  • The energetic polonaise and waltz will kick off the dancing, introduced by debut dancers from the German language school in Sofia with their choreographer Ventsislav Dermendjiev.
  • His pieces have a simple, homespun character that is notably independent of Western influences, and the large repertory of early 19th-century polonaises, including the earliest attempts by Chopin, owed a good deal to his model.
  • In the olden times the polonaise was a kind of solemn ceremony. Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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