coranto

[ kuh-ran-toh, -rahn-, koh- ]

/ kəˈræn toʊ, -ˈrɑn-, koʊ- /

courante.

Origin of coranto

1615–25; earlier carranta < Italian cor(r)anta < French courante courante

She would dance a Coranto, that the French Ambassador, hidden behind a curtain, might report her sprightliness to his master.

Provocations |Sibyl Bristowe
Why dost thou not go to church in a galliard, and come home in a coranto?

Hazlitt on English Literature |Jacob Zeitlin
Even the Pope (I speak in all reverence) must play billiards or trip a coranto now and then!

Shandygaff |Christopher Morley
I thought Sir you wou'd have been more open-handed, I sell no Coranto's at such rates.

The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life |Anonymous

Morley speaks of the Volte, and says it is characterised by 'rising and leaping,' and is of the same 'measure' as a coranto.

Shakespeare and Music |Edward W. Naylor

coranto

/ (kɒˈræntəʊ) /

a variant of courante