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Gavotte

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A French dance, in either 4/4 or 2/2 time.
  2. 2
    an old formal French dance in quadruple time wordnet
  3. 3
    music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To perform this dance.

    "You had one eye in the mirror as / you watched yourself gavotte / And all the girls dreamed that they'd be your partner / They'd be your partner, and / You're so vain"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French, from Provençal gavoto (“dance of the mountain people”), from Old Occitan Gavot (“Alp native”, literally “glutton, boor”), from gaver (“force feed”), from Old Provençal gava (“crop”); attested since the 1690s.

Etymology 2

From French, from Provençal gavoto (“dance of the mountain people”), from Old Occitan Gavot (“Alp native”, literally “glutton, boor”), from gaver (“force feed”), from Old Provençal gava (“crop”); attested since the 1690s.

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