† minaway Chiefly Sc. Obs.
Also 7 minnaway, 8 minuwae, 9 minowaye, minua.
Phonetic adoption of F. menuet, minuet n.
| ? 1695 Ballad, Constant Coridon ii, No Minnaway Dance, or Boree, Was ever so sweet a strain. 1787 Burns Let. to W. Nicol 1 June, She..tipper-taipers when she taks the gate, first like a lady's gentlewoman in a minuwae. 1816 Hogg Poetic Mirror (1817) 202 The Otar dancit ane minowaye. 1821 [see mince v. 6 b]. 1826 Galt Last of Lairds xiv, Like a maid of honour dancing a minaway wi' the lord-chancellor. |