Obs. [a. F. branle.]

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  1.  Wavering, agitation, (?) confusion.

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1581.  Savile, Tacitus’ Hist., ii. (1591), 78. The Legion incensed with griefe … put them of the first [legion] in branle [impulit primanos].

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  2.  A kind of dance, and the kind of music suitable to it; = BRANGLE sb.1 2, BRANSLE 2, BRANTLE.

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1674.  Boyle, Mech. Hypoth., 34. Branles, Sarabands, Jigs, and other … Tunes.

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1820.  Scott, Abbot, xxxi. She led the last branle.

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