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How to pronounce polonaise in English?

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Type of dress, frock

Examples of polonaise

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At their parties the polonaise, mazurka, and oberek were the most popular dances.
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He sings Hava Nagila and applauds as Margaret moves into a Chopin polonaise.
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At the end of the 18th century, Polish classical music evolved into national forms like the polonaise.
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Williams sees this as a sort of polonaise.
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The most important development in this time, however, was the polonaise, perhaps the first distinctively Polish art music.
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Then there's the matchless beauty of the polonaise, the famous opening dance performed by handpicked debutantes, pictured here.
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In excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, the woodwinds and brass were blatty in the waltz, but achieved a better blend in the polonaise.
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We think of him as favouring speed, but here he allowed the opening movement and closing polonaise to unfold with slow, majestic grandeur.
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The corps shows off the fluidity of the work's classical inspiration while making the interwoven complexities of the final fugal polonaise appear deceptively simple.
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  • Polonaise is a Polmos u0141au0144cut vodka made from quality rectified grain spirit and water. According to its producer it has a pleasant and delicate aroma and flavor with notes of the grain it is made from. It contains 40% alcohol by volume.
  • A Polish dance in 3/4 time; Chopin's Polonaises for piano are the most famous examples of this music.
  • A style of gown that features the skirt pulled to the sides to reveal the petticoat underneath.
  • A Polish national dance of a stately and festive character. The music is always in moderate triple meter and typically phrases end with feminine cadences. The basic Polonaise rhythm is generally given to the left hand accompaniment, and the right hand accentuates it by its melody. ...
  • This is a stately Polish processional dance or instrumental piece.
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