GAVOTTE • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Gavotte

... about it, are alike in this—when we hear the words Louis XIV we do not think of a great monarch with a powdered wig and a powdered mistress, of magnificent fountains and courtiers and ladies dancing the gavotte, of a brilliant court and striking epoch. Not at all. We think, both of us, of a gilt chair with a brocaded seat (slightly worn), and maybe a sofa to match. If you say that you don't, I must politely but firmly—well, differ ...

— Penguin Persons & Peppermints • Walter Prichard Eaton

... the stilts. I expect in a week that you'll be able to dance a gavotte at least; for mind me, Peter, you travel out of France upon these stilts, depend ...

— Peter Simple and The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 • Frederick Marryat