Meanings
pavan1
plural pavans
- alternativeAlternative form of pavane (“musical style and dance”).
1 more example
And he tasted in the language of memory ambered wines, dying fallings of sweet airs, the proud pavan: and saw with the eyes of memory kind gentlewomen in Covent Garden wooing from their balconies with sucking mouths and the pox fouled wenches of the taverns and young wives that, gaily yielding to their ravishers, clipped and clipped again.
1916, James Joyce, chapter V, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 274
Pavan2
- A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
- Sanskritपवन
- EnglishPavan
Borrowed from Sanskrit पवन (pavana).
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