Meanings
plural ländlers · alternative laendler
- An Austrian folk dance in the form of a slow waltz.
Sometimes I seemed to hear a long-forgotten Welsh hymn in their melodies, or then again, very softly yet making the senses swirl, the revolutions of a waltz, a ländler theme, or the slow sound of a funeral march […].
2011, WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, Penguin, page 383
Origin
- GermanLändler
- Englishländler
From German Ländler, from Austrian German Ländl, diminutive of Land (“land, country”).
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