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gavotte

noun

ga·​votte gə-ˈvät How to pronounce gavotte (audio)
1
: a dance of French peasant origin marked by the raising rather than sliding of the feet
2
: a tune for the gavotte in moderately quick ⁴/₄ time
gavotte intransitive verb

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web With all that happened, we're supposed to dance a merry gavotte because some diggers found a proto-clucker with a duck caboose? Star Tribune, 24 Dec. 2020 Listen out for the slow middle movement without a continuo, solemn and still, set against a charming gavotte to wrap up. E.c., The Economist, 21 May 2020 Through gavottes, tambourins, and menuets, dance pieces for those operas, the Baroque orchestra was in its full splendor. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2019

Word History

Etymology

French, from Middle French, from Old Occitan gavato, from gavot Alpine dweller

First Known Use

1696, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of gavotte was in 1696
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