Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A French peasant dance of Baroque origin in moderately quick duple meter.
- noun The music for this dance.
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- noun A French
dance , either in4/4 or2/2 time.
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- noun an old formal French dance in quadruple time
- noun music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte
Etymologies
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Examples
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Well, at the end of each term there was what they called an "exhibition ball," in which the scholars danced cotillons and country-dances; also something called a "gavotte," and I think one or more walked a minuet.
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Well, at the end of each term there was what they called an "exhibition ball," in which the scholars danced cotillons and country-dances; also something called a "gavotte," and I think one or more walked a minuet.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Between the two large explosions in the first movement, violin and orchestra engage in a stately kind of gavotte that eventually gathers to a critical mass and lunges forth in Russian figures of mass and fury.
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Between the two large explosions in the first movement, violin and orchestra engage in a stately kind of gavotte that eventually gathers to a critical mass and lunges forth in Russian figures of mass and fury.
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When she founded NYBDC in 1976, it was an academic discipline focused on reconstructing the steps of old dances, their names — among them the minuet and gavotte — familiar from the music of Bach and Handel.
Stepping Through History Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011
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Do we really have to dance this gavotte all over again?
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Which authors get to sign at which New York locations is a tricky gavotte involving publishers, chain bookstores and other venues.
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Which authors get to sign at which New York locations is a tricky gavotte involving publishers, chain bookstores and other venues.
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Which authors get to sign at which New York locations is a tricky gavotte involving publishers, chain bookstores and other venues.
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Which authors get to sign at which New York locations is a tricky gavotte involving publishers, chain bookstores and other venues.
delcj commented on the word gavotte
you walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht
your hat strategically dipped below one eye, your scarf it was apricot
you had one eye in the mirror as you watched yourself gavotte
i think i'll always love Carly Simon for rhyming yacht and apricot with gavotte.
August 20, 2007
Prolagus commented on the word gavotte
And also for writing a song about me.
February 5, 2010
dontcry commented on the word gavotte
She did, Pro. Didn't she, didn't she, didn't she?
February 5, 2010
reesetee commented on the word gavotte
Or so he thought.
February 6, 2010