From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishminuetmin‧u‧et /ˌmɪnjuˈet/ noun [countable] APDAPMa slow dance of the 17th and 18th centuries, or a piece of music for this dance
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minuet• The same is true for the 3/4 minuets of Haydn and Mozart.• The point at which a minuet is no longer a minuet, but becomes a waltz or scherzo, is ultimately indefinable.• He was doing a little minuet and he starts finding out things about his body.• Is he merely to proffer his hand and lead her into a stately minuet?• In the minuet the viola leads both violins.• Throughout history, otherwise unmarked minuets have been written in a number of time signatures, including 3/4,6/8 and 3/8.Origin minuet (1600-1700) French menuet, from Old French menu “small”; → MINUTE2 