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/ɡˈævɒt/
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NOUN
- music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte
- an old formal French dance in quadruple time
How To Use gavotte In A Sentence
- Composers who wrote instrumental gavottes include François Couperin, Rameau, Purcell, Pachelbel, and J. C. F. Fischer.
- A group of dancers in period costumes will recreate baroque dances including a minuet and a gavotte.
- Yve, kindly lady that she is, came to rescue me - but all for naught, as she was swept up into the lively gavotte before she could play-act knight in shining armor.
- He had recently orchestrated a gavotte with variations by Rameau, and had completed his Second Symphony, begun over five years before, but left unfinished until now.
- A seagull struggled to cry over the gavotte that the school's ancient pipes were playing near me.
- Which authors get to sign at which New York locations is a tricky gavotte involving publishers, chain bookstores and other venues. Authors Duke It Out For NYC Book Signing Outlets
- Kent is oblivious to the fact that he couldn't possibly fit into this rarefied social environment, where the Social Dance is as complex as a gavotte.
- Between the two large explosions in the first movement, violin and orchestra engage in a stately kind of gavotte that eventually gathers to a critical mass and lunges forth in Russian figures of mass and fury. Audiophile Audition Headlines
- Yve, kindly lady that she is, came to rescue me - but all for naught, as she was swept up into the lively gavotte before she could play-act knight in shining armor.
- Under the direction of instructor Shirley Agate-Proust from the Alberta Ballet School of Dance, a group of dancers in period costumes will recreate baroque dances including a minuet and a gavotte.