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cha·conne

chaconne

 
pronunciation:
shae kan [or] sha kon
part of speech: noun
definition 1: a slow, formal dance of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries having its origins in Spain or Latin America, or the music composed for such a dance.
definition 2: a musical form suited to this dance, consisting of variations on a repeated harmonic pattern.