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gavotte

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ga·votte  (g-vt)
n.
1. A French peasant dance of Baroque origin in moderately quick duple meter.
2. Music for this dance.
[French, from Provençal gavoto, from gavot, native of the Alps, possibly from gava, crop of a bird, from Vulgar Latin *gaba, gullet, throat.]
ga·votte v.
gavotte
Noun
1. an old formal dance in quadruple time
2. music for this dance [French]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.gavotte - an old formal French dance in quadruple time
social dancing - dancing as part of a social occasion
2.gavotte - music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte
dance music - music to dance to


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Again, there was the little French chevalier opposite, who gave lessons in his native tongue at various schools in the neighbourhood, and who might be heard in his apartment of nights playing tremulous old gavottes and minuets on a wheezy old fiddle.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
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