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- noun Plural form of
gigue .
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Examples
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We practice the latest dancing—the French gigues and courantes are all the rage—and then walking and talking and sitting and eating.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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We practice the latest dancing—the French gigues and courantes are all the rage—and then walking and talking and sitting and eating.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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At the same time he made sarabandes, gavottes, minuets, chaconnes, passepieds, gigues, polonaises and rondos dance across the piano in quick succession; and his comments were as spirited as his playing.
Edward MacDowell Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939 1908
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At the same time he made sarabandes, gavottes, minuets, chaconnes, passepieds, gigues, polonaises and rondos dance across the piano in quick succession; and his comments were as spirited as his playing.
Edward MacDowell Lawrence Gilman 1908
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There are six sections listed as (you guessed it) "suites," and the chapters are structured like a musical piece, including preludes, sarabands and gigues.
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