GAVOTTE

gavotte

(noun) an old formal French dance in quadruple time

gavotte

(noun) music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

gavotte (plural gavottes)

A French dance, in either 4/4 or 2/2 time.

Verb

gavotte (third-person singular simple present gavottes, present participle gavotting, simple past and past participle gavotted)

To perform this dance.

Source: Wiktionary



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