Stately walk

  • 1stately home — noun a mansion that is (or formerly was) occupied by an aristocratic family • Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain • Hypernyms: ↑ …

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  • 2stately homes — In Britain there are many large stately homes that belong or used to belong to upper class aristocratic families. The houses are called stately homes from the opening lines of a poem by Felicia Hemans (1793–1835): The stately homes of England How …

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  • 3walk — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 trip on foot ADJECTIVE ▪ brief, little, short ▪ We took a brief walk around the old quarter. ▪ good, long, long distance (BrE …

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  • 4stately — adj. Stately is used with these nouns: ↑dance, ↑home, ↑mansion, ↑procession, ↑progress, ↑walk …

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  • 5march — I. v. n. 1. Walk (by regular steps, as soldiers), move forward. 2. Walk in a steady manner, step, go. II. n. 1. Military movement, passage of soldiers. 2. Stately walk, deliberate walk. 3. Progression, advance, advancement, progress, progressive… …

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  • 7Gånglåt — A gånglåt is a category of Swedish traditional folk music; a fiddle tune in an easy, 4/4 or 2/4 march meter. The name in Swedish means walking tune , and the traditional tempo is that of a stately walk. Not to be referred to/or confused with a… …

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  • 8tuatara — /tooh euh tahr euh/, n. a large, primarily nocturnal, lizardlike reptile, Sphenodon punctatum, of islands near the coast of New Zealand: the only surviving rhynchocephalian. Also, tuatera /tooh euh tair euh/. Also called sphenodon. [1810 20; <&#8230; …

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  • 9bustard — [15] Bustard (the name of a large game bird now extinct in Britain) is something of a mystery word. Old French had two terms for the bird, bistarde and oustarde, both of which come from Latin avis tarda, literally ‘slow bird’ (Latin tardus gave&#8230; …

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  • 10bustard — [15] Bustard (the name of a large game bird now extinct in Britain) is something of a mystery word. Old French had two terms for the bird, bistarde and oustarde, both of which come from Latin avis tarda, literally ‘slow bird’ (Latin tardus gave&#8230; …

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