Definitions for gavotte

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gavotte ga·votte

Spelling: [guh-vot]

IPA: /gəˈvɒt/

Gavotte is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in gavotte (aegottv).

Definitions for gavotte

noun

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.

Origin of gavotte

1690-1700; French Provençal gavoto a mountaineer of Provence, a dance of such mountaineers, apparently derivative of gava bird's crop (probably pre-Latin *gaba throat, crop, goiter), alluding

Examples for gavotte

She drummed with one hand, then with both, at a gavotte on the rack before her.

The string band struck the preliminary cords of the gavotte.

In the intervals of his school work he composed a gavotte which had a quaint origin.

gavotte escorted us to the door and then returned to our camp.

After breakfast I had a last practice with him and Lecomte for the gavotte.

Miss Kennedy played a gavotte, and then another, and then a sonata.

I have heard of clean people, but gavotte is the cleanest man I ever saw.

I had heard that panthers cried that way, but gavotte said it was not a panther.

Next morning gavotte met Mrs. O'Shaughnessy and invited her.

First they danced a gavotte, and then twirled off in a waltz.