Gavot
Gavot (? o?; 277) , noun
[French gavotte, from Gavots, a people inhabiting a mountainous district in France, called Gap.]
(Music) A kind of difficult, old formal French dance in quadruple time.
2.
Music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte, having a dance tune which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over.
Also: Gavotte