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Gender Feminine
Usage American (Rare, Archaic)
Meaning & History
From the English word "minuet" referring to a type of "dance" or "a movement which is part of a longer musical composition such as a suite, sonata, or symphony, inspired by or conforming to the dance of the same name". From the French menuet, from menu 'small' and et, a diminutive, from the Latin minutus 'very small'.