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gavotte
or ·dz
[ guh-vot ]
noun
- an old French dance in moderately quick quadruple meter.
- a piece of music for, or in the rhythm of, this dance, often forming one of the movements in the classical suite, usually following the saraband.
gavotte
/ ɡəˈɒ /
noun
- an old formal dance in quadruple time
- a piece of music composed for or in the rhythm of this dance
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gavotte1
1690–1700; < French < ʰDZç gavoto a mountaineer of Provence, a dance of such mountaineers, apparently derivative of gava bird's crop (probably < pre-Latin *gaba throat, crop, goiter), alluding to the prevalence of goiter among the mountaineers
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gavotte1
C17: from French, from ʰDZç gavoto, from gavot mountaineer, dweller in the Alps (where the dance originated), from gava goitre (widespread in the Alps), from Old Latin gaba (unattested) throat
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Example Sentences
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The music of the party scene, with its playful marches and stately gavotte, is pleasant and lovely, but the real joy of Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” doesn’t begin until Clara goes to bed.
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The dance was a gavotte, too spirited for talk.
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And he cast a ball scene in Act I as a gavotte, a popular dance form in the colonies.
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But given the outright ugliness of this year’s presidential election, the bare-knuckled wrangling of Fiorello’s era seems more like a friendly gavotte conducted in kid gloves.
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Inside, the building is an intricate gavotte of interlocked functions and juxtaposed ramps and balconies.
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