noun
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A kind of canopy bed draped with a baldacchin.
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noun
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A stately Polish dance in triple time and moderate tempo.
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Music for this dance.
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A woman's dress having a tight bodice and a skirt divided to show a coloured underskirt.
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A short overcoat bordered with fur.
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A garnish made with melted butter, breadcrumbs and herbs.
verb
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To dance the polonaise.
Examples of polonaise in a Sentence
Under these circumstances began in 1864 the great persecution of the" croyance Polonaise,"as the Catholic faith was called.
C. Propolanis, L'Eglise Polonaise en Lithuanie (1914); Albinas Rimka, Lietuvos ukis pries didji kara (1918); Russian Poland, Lithuania and White Russia, Handbook No.
It has a very different mode of expression from the ceremonial pomp of the traditional polonaise.
The men began to choose partners and take their places for the polonaise.
More than half the ladies already had partners and were taking up, or preparing to take up, their positions for the polonaise.
The strains of the polonaise, which had continued for a considerable time, had begun to sound like a sad reminiscence to Natasha's ears.