pavan
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 5
Definition of pavan
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of pavane (“musical style and dance”).
“And he tasted in the language of memory ambered wines, dying fallings of sweet airs, the proud pavan: and saw with the eyes of memory kind gentlewomen in Covent Garden wooing from their balconies with sucking mouths and the pox fouled wenches of the taverns and young wives that, gaily yielding to their ravishers, clipped and clipped again.”
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noun
-
(alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of pavane (“musical style and dance”).
“And he tasted in the language of memory ambered wines, dying fallings of sweet airs, the proud pavan: and saw with the eyes of memory kind gentlewomen in Covent Garden wooing from their balconies with sucking mouths and the pox fouled wenches of the taverns and young wives that, gaily yielding to their ravishers, clipped and clipped again.”
name
- A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit पवन (pavana).
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