1. （流行于17、18世纪的）米奴哀舞曲;小步舞曲
In the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a minuet is a piece of music with three beats in a bar which is played at moderate speed.

2. 米奴哀舞;小步舞
A minuet is a fairly slow and formal dance which was popular in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

1. a stately court dance in the 17th century

2. a stately piece of music composed for dancing the minuet
often incorporated into a sonata or suite