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Chambranle
Chambranle Cham`bran"le, n. [F.] (Arch.) An ornamental bordering or framelike decoration around the sides and top of a door, window, or fireplace. The top piece is called the traverse and the side pieces the ascendants.

Meaning of Branle from wikipedia

- premier branle, branle ****, branle de Poictou (also called branle à mener), branle double de Poictou, cinquiesme branle (by 1636 named branle de Montirandé)...
- The tune first appeared as a secular dance tune known under the title "Branle de l'Official" in Orchésographie, a dance book written by the French cleric...
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl, a 2008 platform fighting game for the Nintendo Wii Branle, a French dance style, pronounced "Brawl" Brawler (disambiguation) This...
- and Opie and Opie (1951), p. 365, citing Chants Po****ire du Languedoc: "Branle, calandre, La Fille d'Alexandre, La pêche bien mûre, Le rosier tout fleuri...
- the Canary dance. Thoinot Arbeau's book Orchésographie describes peasant branles as well as the 16th century b****e danse and la volta. The peasants from...
- short steps, pas menus, taken in the dance, or else be derived from the branle à mener or amener, po****r group dances in early 17th-century France. The...
- Renaissance dance, the gavotte is first mentioned as the last of a suite of branles. Po****r at the court of Louis XIV, it became one of many optional dances...
- involve close contact between men and women was considered appropriate. The branle dance, which involved couples intertwining arms or holding hands, returned...
- Auvergne in France. It is sometimes called the "French clog dance" or a "branle of the sabots". First mentioned as a po****r dance in 1665 in Clermont-Ferrand...
- characteristic dance step) is a French court dance. Originating as a kind of Breton branle, it was adapted to courtly use in the 16th century and is found frequently...