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landler

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länd⋅ler

  [lent-ler]
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–noun, plural -ler, -lers.
1. an Austrian and southern German folk dance in moderately slow triple meter, antecedent to the waltz.
2. music for this dance.
3. a piano or orchestral composition patterned after such music.
Origin:
1875–80; < G: lit., something connected with Landl (lit., little land) name for Upper Austria, where the dance first became popular; see -er 1
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landler

noun
1. music in triple time for dancing the landler 
2. a moderately slow Austrian country dance in triple time; involves spinning and clapping 
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