Meaning & use
rigadoon
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A lively baroque dance for couples, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries, or the music written for it.
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The court musicians struck up a rigadoon as the dancers took their places.
Handel composed several rigadoons that are still performed today.
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Believed to originate in Provence, France, the rigadoon was especially fashionable in French and English royal courts.
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