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
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Thus enfranchised, Hackman took on Richard Harris’ elegant killer English Bob with gusto, mixing in a bravura oratorical gavotte with ample kicks to the ribs, and summoning the Best Supporting Actor trophy.
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Fred Schruers, IndieWire, 27 Feb. 2025
The kids play the Gossec gavotte over and over and over.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
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
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Fred Schruers, IndieWire, 27 Feb. 2025
The kids play the Gossec gavotte over and over and over.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
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
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“Gavotte.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gavotte. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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