Obs. Also 8 bransel. [a. F. bransle (16th c.), a graphical variant of branle: see BRANLE, also BRANGLE, BRANTLE.]

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  1.  Movement, perturbation. rare. (= BRANGLE sb.1 1, BRANLE sb. 1.)

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1603.  Florio, Montaigne, III. ix. (1632), 565. Observe … the motions and bransles of the Heavens.

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  2.  A kind of dance; also, a song for dance music. (= BRANGLE sb.1 2, BRANLE sb. 2, BRANTLE.)

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1596.  Spenser, F. Q., III. x. 8. Now making layes of love … Bransles, ballads, virelayes.

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1597.  Morley, Introd. Mus., 181. The bransle de poictou or bransle double is more quick in time … but the straine is longer, containing most vsually twelue whole strokes.

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1829.  Scott, Anne of G., 344. The youthful couple went off to take their place in the bransle.

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