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  • noun Plural form of gavotte.

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Examples

  • They next adjourned to the Place, where they danced three "gavottes" under the trees.

    Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

  • Then, almost to prove the opposite point, she happily gavottes with the groove in both the CD's track and in her tongue-in-cheek, period piece video that features guests Hugh Laurie and John Malkovich.

    Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Reviews: The Annie Lennox Collection/Simply Red 25 - The Greatest Hits 2009

  • March 4, 2008 at 6:19 pm sry, i just found yure gavotte comment. i has played gavottes, but do not now how to danz wun. need lessons, i do.

    DnD kitteh morns loss of Gary Gygax - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Again, there was the little French chevalier opposite, who gave lessons in his native tongue at various schools in the neighbourhood, and who might be heard in his apartment of nights playing tremulous old gavottes and minuets on a wheezy old fiddle.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • In a bowl mix the Nutella (200g), melted milk chocolate (50g), broken crêpes gavottes or rice krispies (30g) and melted butter (15g)

    foodbeam » 2006 » September 2006

  • So yesterday night i made the hazelnut daquoise, the base for the chocolate whipped cream, the chocolate sheets and the nutella-crêpes gavottes & milk chocolate spread.

    foodbeam » Plaisir sucré 2005

  • So yesterday night i made the hazelnut daquoise, the base for the chocolate whipped cream, the chocolate sheets and the nutella-crêpes gavottes & milk chocolate spread.

    foodbeam » 2005 » October 2005

  • In the spring of 1883 he began to compose music, and in 1885 we published together an album of minuets, gavottes, and fugues.

    Samuel Butler: A Sketch 2003

  • A Breton tune filled her head, one of those gavottes that didn't~have more than a dozen notes all told and just went on and on, and she found herself humming it.

    Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

  • It must have been absurd enough to see them capering about, and dancing minuets and gavottes in blanket coats and moccasins.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various

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