gavotte
noun
- a 17th-cent. dance like the minuet, but faster and livelier
- the music for this, in 4/4 time
See gavotte in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(gə-vŏtˈ)
noun- A French peasant dance of Baroque origin in moderately quick duple meter.
- Music for this dance.
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