Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A French peasant dance of Baroque origin in moderately quick duple meter.
- n. Music for this dance.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. an old formal French dance in quadruple time
- n. music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte
Etymologies
- French (Wiktionary)
- French, from Provençal gavoto, from gavot, native of the Alps, possibly from gava, crop of a bird, from Vulgar Latin *gaba, gullet, throat. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Well, at the end of each term there was what they called an "exhibition ball," in which the scholars danced cotillons and country-dances; also something called a "gavotte," and I think one or more walked a minuet.”
“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.”
“When she founded NYBDC in 1976, it was an academic discipline focused on reconstructing the steps of old dances, their names — among them the minuet and gavotte — familiar from the music of Bach and Handel.”
“Do we really have to dance this gavotte all over again?”
“Which authors get to sign at which New York locations is a tricky gavotte involving publishers, chain bookstores and other venues.”
“But let me suggest that the reason for the dance -- be it a two-step, jig, gavotte, or what have you -- has a lot to do with the historical issues raised by people like James and Thom.”
“It's an ugly dance, a jig that reminds one of a crazy gavotte in Bedlam.”
“In fact having danced a gay gavotte to the sounds of the Norty Nowf Lunnun Collectif a month or two ago I am quite keen on rap.”
“According to Jordan Tate, author of The Contemporary Dictionary of Sexual Euphemisms, that's slang for a horizontal gavotte of sufficient vigor to leave one's wig askew.”
“That evening, on his return to his own chamber, he danced a gavotte, using his thumb and forefinger as castanets, and he sang the following song:”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gavotte’.
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MUSIC - dance styles
A list generated by Phrontistery
http://phrontistery.info/dance.html
which I wanted to have along with my own lists on Wordnikallemande, beguine, bergamask, bolero, bossa-nova, boston, bourrée, bransle, buck-and-wing, cabriole, cakewalk, canary and 93 more...
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phrontistery - g
from phrontistery.info
gynaecology, gynaecomania, gyromancy, gyrograph, gyve, gyrus, gyron, gynaecocracy, gyrose, gynics, gutturotetany, gymnophobia and 439 more...
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Redundancing
The Moves. Do~do~ditty!
tango, bolero, cha cha, foxtrot, foxtantino, hip hop, hustle, jive, merengue, two step, paso doble, quickstep and 219 more...
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You probably think this list is about...
Don't you?
Don't you?You're so vain., You probably thin..., Carly Simon, Mick Jagger, Warren Beatty, warren beatty, I had some dreams..., You probably thin..., James Reyne or Rain, David Geffen, cravat, gavotte and 17 more...
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Words you were amazed to hear in a song
Amazed… or awestruck.
You might want to leave a comment with title and artist somewhere. Thanks.fuligin, lictor, slither, heinous, stigma, penance, conciliation, Urth, lino, acquiesce, halo halo, bo peep and 62 more...
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Morthalion's Words
supercilious, kvetch, kvass, splurge, erroneous, pugnacious, macabre, gauche, conglomerate, abyss, paraphernalia, kleptomania and 285 more...
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Words from "Pearls Before Breakfast"
nondescript, shrewd, seed money, bureaucrat, indeterminate, fungible, cupidity, banal, grandeur, utilitarian, buffer, ecstatic and 123 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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delcj's Words
gavotte, perverse, tchotchkes, schmoop, divisural, triplicostate, albatross, snuggery, virgule, separatrix, solidus, tetrodotoxin and 116 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Beautiful Music
a cappella, accelerando, accompagnato, adagio, ad libitum, agitato, aleatory, alla breve, allegro, allemande, alto, andante and 548 more...
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Dance Magic Dance
Styles of dance
ballet, tango, waltz, salsa, polka, swing, charleston, foxtrot, jitterbug, tap, quickstep, mambo and 101 more...
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Bonjour, cheese-eating surrender monk...
aka words we stole from the French
jejune, odalisque, puissant, sobriquet, minatory, remand, marauding, pullet, paragon, sanguine, parvenu, en passant and 20 more...
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words I remember first encountering
fetlock, artefact, quandary, asyndeton, chiasmus, enjambement, vehemently, vituperative, decorum, sable, scansion, diapason and 75 more...
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Types of Song
Different names for musical pieces.
cadenza, sonata, concerto, cavatina, waltz, mazurka, gavotte, kujawiak, minuet, canon, aria, divertissement and 7 more...
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Musical Encirclement
harmony, dissonance, dissonant, lyric, hymn, melody, nocturne, rhythm, sonorous, dissonant, caterwaul, concertina and 11 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for gavotte.
reesetee Or so he thought. Feb 6, 2010
dontcry She did, Pro. Didn't she, didn't she, didn't she? Feb 5, 2010
Prolagus And also for writing a song about me. Feb 5, 2010
delcj you walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht
your hat strategically dipped below one eye, your scarf it was apricot
you had one eye in the mirror as you watched yourself gavotte
i think i'll always love Carly Simon for rhyming yacht and apricot with gavotte. Aug 20, 2007