gavotte
noun
ga·votte gə-ˈvät 
1
: a dance of French peasant origin marked by the raising rather than sliding of the feet
2
: a tune for the gavotte in moderately quick ⁴/₄ time
gavotte intransitive verb
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web With all that happened, we're supposed to dance a merry gavotte because some diggers found a proto-clucker with a duck caboose? 
Star Tribune, 24 Dec. 2020 Listen out for the slow middle movement without a continuo, solemn and still, set against a charming gavotte to wrap up. E.c., The Economist, 21 May 2020 Through gavottes, tambourins, and menuets, dance pieces for those operas, the Baroque orchestra was in its full splendor. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2019
Star Tribune, 24 Dec. 2020 Listen out for the slow middle movement without a continuo, solemn and still, set against a charming gavotte to wrap up. E.c., The Economist, 21 May 2020 Through gavottes, tambourins, and menuets, dance pieces for those operas, the Baroque orchestra was in its full splendor. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2019 Word History
Etymology
French, from Middle French, from Old Occitan gavato, from gavot Alpine dweller
First Known Use
1696, in the meaning defined at sense 1
gavotting
verb
as in mamboing
Synonyms & Similar Words
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- mamboing
- waltzing
- polkaing
- fox-trotting
- jigging
- shagging
- shuffling
- bopping
- jitterbugging
- boogeying
- boogying
- prancing
- shimmying
- jiving
- tangoing
- tap-dancing
- strutting
- twisting
- dancing
- tripping
- treading
- stepping
- hoofing (it)
- footing (it)