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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a court dance of the 16th century; consisted of short advances and retreats

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle French, from courir to run, from Latin currere Date: 1586 1. a dance of Italian origin marked by quick running steps 2. music in quick triple time or in a mixture of 3/2 and 6/4 time

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 hist. a running or gliding dance. 2 Mus. the music used for this, esp. as a movement of a suite. Etymology: F, fem. pres. part. (as noun) of courir run f. L currere