1. slow, stately Spanish dances in triple time, or the music for such dances
Usage: historical; music

Examples

• The baroque suite included several sarabands.
• Bach composed beautiful sarabands in his keyboard suites.
• The dancers performed traditional sarabands at the historical festival.
• The sarabands were originally popular in 17th-century Spain.
• Musicians studied the ornate sarabands of the baroque period.
• The concert featured sarabands by Handel and other composers.