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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gavot \Gav"ot\ (? or ?; 277), n. [F. gavotte, fr Gavots, a people inhabiting a mountainous district in France, called Gap.] (Mus.) A kind of difficult dance; a dance tune, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over [Written also {gavotte}.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: gavotte n 1: an old formal French dance in quadruple time 2: music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte
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