Associations to the word «Saraband»

Wiktionary

SARABAND, noun. A slow Spanish dance of Saracenic origin, to an air in triple time; also, the air itself.

Dictionary definition

SARABAND, noun. Music composed for dancing the saraband.
SARABAND, noun. A stately court dance of the 17th and 18th centuries; in slow time.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky