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Webster 1828 Edition

Noun.

[L.] A lofty sprightly dance.

corant ‎(plural corants)

A coranto (kind of dance).
- Sir W. Temple
  It is harder to dance a corant well, than a jig.

corant

corant m ‎(oblique and nominative feminine singular corant or corante)

Present participle of core ‎(“to run”). Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French corant.

corant