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Gavotte, Gavot n. (Mus.)

A kind of difficult, old formal French dance in quadruple time.

Music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte, having a dance tune which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gavotte" Quotes from Famous Books

... A man can't bring out more than there is in him. There's no divine melody in me. Good spirits now and then, a bit of sentiment now and then, a dash more or less of the devil now and then—that's all I'm equal to. If I could have written that gavotte you played a minute ago, I could knock sparks out of people with it. Here! ...

— Cruel Barbara Allen - From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) • David Christie Murray

... husband's nose, the old beau toying with a fan, or the discreet abbe taking snuff over the morning gazette. The grand ladies of Longhi's day pay visits in hoop and farthingale, the beaux make "a leg," and the lacqueys hand chocolate. The beautiful Venetians and their gallants swim through the gavotte or gamble in the Ridotto, or they hasten to assignations, disguised in wide bauti and carrying preposterous muffs. The Correr Museum contains a number of his paintings and also his book of original sketches. One of the most entertaining ...

— The Venetian School of Painting • Evelyn March Phillipps

Words linked to "Gavotte" : dance music, social dancing