Definitions for bourrees

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bourrees bour·rée

Spelling: [boo-rey; French boo-rey

IPA: /bʊˈreɪ; French buˈreɪ/

Bourrees is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 159 anagrams from letters in bourrees (beeorrsu).

Definitions for bourrees

noun

1. an old French and Spanish dance, somewhat like a gavotte.
2. the music for it.

Origin of bourrees

1700-10; French: literally, bundle of brushwood, orig., the twigs with which the bundle was stuffed (the dance may once have been done around brushwood bonfires); noun use of past participle