PAVAN', noun [Latin pavo, a peacock.] A grave dance among the Spaniards. In this dance, the performers make a kind of wheel before each other, the gentlemen dancing with cap and sword, princes with long robes, and the ladies with long trails; the motions resembling the stately steps of the peacock.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.