ETYM Written also Polonese and Polonoise.
A woman's costume with a tight bodice and an overskirt drawn back to reveal a colorful underskirt.
Stately Polish dance of moderate tempo.
Stately Polish dance; dresslike garment worn over skirt.
Polish dance in stately 3/4 time that was common in 18th-century Europe. Chopin developed the polonaise as a pianistic form.