gavotte
noun/ɡəˈvɒt/
/ɡəˈvɑːt/
- a French dance that was popular in the past; a piece of music for this danceTopics Musicc2Word OriginFrench, from Provençal gavoto ‘dance of the mountain people’, from Gavot ‘native of the Alps’.
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