branle
branle (Bransle, etc.; from branler, to sway). Rustic round-dance of Fr. origin, at one time carried out to singing of dancers. Popular at court of Louis XIV but had earlier been taken up in Eng. ( Shakespeare calls it ‘brawl’ Pepys ‘brantle’). Mus. usually in simple duple time.
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