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Examples
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The guy in front of us was waiting to get a "Gigue" - a pierce inserted onto the strip of skin between the scrotum and the anus.
Microserfs Coupland, Douglas 1995
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'Gigue's vernacular' -- but the ladies and gentlemen of her house - party were not so well instructed, and Mrs. Bludlip Courtenay, whose knowledge of the French language was really quite extraordinary, immediately essayed the famous singing-master in his own tongue.
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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'Gigue's vernacular' -- but the ladies and gentlemen of her house - party were not so well instructed, and Mrs. Bludlip Courtenay, whose knowledge of the French language was really quite extraordinary, immediately essayed the famous singing-master in his own tongue.
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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'Gigue's vernacular' -- but the ladies and gentlemen of her house - party were not so well instructed, and Mrs. Bludlip Courtenay, whose knowledge of the French language was really quite extraordinary, immediately essayed the famous singing-master in his own tongue.
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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"I have, of course, played 'Gigue' and 'Bourrée' many times and occasionally 'Pavane' and 'Sarabande', but this is the first time the suite has been done 'whole.'"
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"I have, of course, played 'Gigue' and 'Bourrée' many times and occasionally 'Pavane' and 'Sarabande', but this is the first time the suite has been done 'whole.'"
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"I have, of course, played 'Gigue' and 'Bourrée' many times and occasionally 'Pavane' and 'Sarabande', but this is the first time the suite has been done 'whole.'"
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Yo-Yo Ma's version will feature a beautiful solo of "Gigue" from Bach's Suite No. 3 in C Major.
Autoblog 2009
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These commentators have, however, neglected to prove that the old French word Gigue occurs before the 13th century, or that it is earlier than the Middle High German _Gige_. "
The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart
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Except in the freshly paced Gigue, the composer's signature metrical and harmonic pulse was lost in the performer's aimless subjectivity with plodding tempos and exaggerated ritardandos at every cadence.
Performing arts: Nejla Yatkin, Kris Kristofferson, Carlos Perez Post 2010
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