Meanings
- historicalno pluralA certain form of song or dance popular in Elizabethan times.
[…]herself, in a grown-up lady's dress at age 3, solemnly dancing the steps of a Tinternell[…]
2009, C. E. Murphy, The Pretender's Crown, page 4513 more examples
At last Ferdinando taking into his hand a Lute that lay on his Mistresse bed, did vnto the note of the Venetian galliard apply the Italian dittie[…]but his Mistres could not be quiet vntill she heard hym repeat the Tinternell which he vsed ouer night[…]
c. 1575, George Gascoigne, “The pleasant Fable of Ferdinando Ie∣ronomi and Leonora de Valasco, translated out of the Italian riding tales of Bartello”, in The poesies of George Gascoigne Esquire, pages 217–218And I, a loitering shadow, With other shadows dwell, Twirling like string-tied puppet In aimless tinternel.
1906, Florence Wilkinson, “The Far Country”, in The Far Country, page 183Whether it was the stately tinternell or the exuberant jig, dancing was considered a healthy recreation for the mind and exercise for the body during the Elizabethan era.
2015, Jodie Gould, High: 6 Principles for Guilt-Free Pleasure and Escape
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