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Gigue

//ʒiːɡ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    an Irish dance, derived from the jig, used in the Partita form (Baroque Period).

    "[…] sweet to us it is to behold delightful dancing, be it the stately splendour of the Pavane which progresseth as large clouds at sun-down that pass by in splendour; or the graceful Allemande; or the Fandango, which goeth by degrees from languorous beauty to the swiftness and passion of Bacchanals dancing on the high lawns under a summer moon that hangeth in the pine trees; or the joyous maze of the Galliard; or the Gigue, dear to the Foliots."

  2. 2
    music in three-four time for dancing a jig wordnet

Etymology

From French gigue. Doublet of jig.

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