单词 | gavotte |
释义 | gavotte /geuh vot"/, n. 1. an old French dance in moderately quick quadruple meter. 2. a piece of music for, or in the rhythm of, this dance, often forming one of the movements in the classical suite, usually following the saraband. Also, gavot. [1690-1700; < F < Pr gavoto a mountaineer of Provence, a dance of such mountaineers, appar. deriv. of gava bird's crop (prob. < pre-L *gaba throat, crop, goiter), alluding to the prevalence of goiter among the mountaineers] |
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