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Gavotte

noun
1.
An old formal French dance in quadruple time.
2.
Music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte.





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"Gavotte" Quotes from Famous Books



... was among the audience on the first night, thought she looked like a thorough-bred racer as she made a dignified entrance to a clanging stately gavotte crashed out by the band. He had given her dresser a couple of pesetas to have her well turned out, and the result was exceedingly satisfactory even to ...
— The Hippodrome • Rachel Hayward
... Eleanore. In his leisure hours he composed waltzes and marches, and dedicated them to the princes and princesses of the royal family. He also dedicated one to Gertrude. It was entitled "Feenzauber," and was a gavotte. ...
— The Goose Man • Jacob Wassermann
... recommenced, but more Olympian in tone, as befitted the ruler of rulers, terrible now being the lifting of Hogarth's brows at the least lapse in ritual; and only the chastest- nurtured of the earth ever now stalked through gavotte or pavane in ...
— The Lord of the Sea • M. P. Shiel


Words linked to "Gavotte" :   social dancing, dance music


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