Polonaise Definition

pŏlə-nāz, pōlə-
noun
A stately Polish dance in triple time, almost processional in character.
Webster's New World
An 18th-cent. dress with the skirt divided in front and worn looped back over an elaborate underskirt, originally in Poland.
Webster's New World
The music for this dance.
American Heritage
The Polish language.
Wiktionary
adjective

Of or pertaining to the Poles, or to Poland.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Polonaise

Noun

Singular:
polonaise
Plural:
polonaises

Origin of Polonaise

  • French from feminine of polonais Polish from Medieval Latin Polōnia Poland

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the French polonaise (Polish).

    From Wiktionary

Polonaise Sentence Examples

  • 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.

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Words Starting With

PPOPOL

Words Ending With

ESEISE

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Words Starting With P and Ending With E

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