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min⋅u⋅et

  [min-yoo-et]
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–noun
1. a slow, stately dance in triple meter, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries.
2. a piece of music for such a dance or in its rhythm.
Origin:
1665–75; < F menuet, equiv. to menu small (see menu ) + -et -et; so called from the shortness of the dancers' steps
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min·u·et   (mĭn'yōō-ět')   
n.  

  1. A slow, stately pattern dance in 3/4 time for groups of couples, originating in 17th-century France.

  2. The music for or in the rhythm of the minuet.

  3. A movement in 3/4 time that is usually the third, but sometimes the second, of a four-movement symphony or string quartet.


[French menuet, from Old French, small, dainty (from the small steps characteristic of the dance), diminutive of menu, small, from Latin minūtus; see minute2.]
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Word Origin & History

minuet 
"slow dance in triple measure," 1673, from Fr. menuet, from O.Fr. menuet (adj.) "small, delicate," from menu "small," from L. minutus "small, minute." So called from the short steps taken in the dance.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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