1. a slow, graceful ballroom dance in triple time, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries
Usage: historical
2. a piece of music written for or in the style of a minuet dance

Examples

• The couple performed an elegant minuet at the formal ball.
• Mozart composed several beautiful minuets for piano.
• The dance instructor taught us the basic steps of the minuet.
• Bach’s Minuet in G Major is a popular piece for beginning pianists.
• The minuet was considered the height of sophistication in 18th-century society.
• She practiced the minuet’s graceful movements in front of the mirror.