noun
Meaning 1
A French dance, in either 4/4 or 2/2 time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
gavotte
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rhymes with -ɒt
verb
Meaning 2
To perform this dance.
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noun
Meaning 3
an old formal French dance in quadruple time
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: social dancing
noun
Meaning 4
music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte
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Broader terms: dance music
History
Etymology
From French, from Provençal gavoto (“dance of the mountain people”), from Old Occitan Gavot (“Alp native”, literally “glutton, boor”), from gaver (“force feed”), from Old Provençal gava (“crop”); attested since the 1690s.
Across languages
Translations
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: գավոտ (gavot) — French dance
- Czech: gavota — French dance
- French: gavotte — French dance
- Polish: gawot — French dance
- Russian: гаво́т (gavót) — French dance
- Swedish: gavott — French dance