Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

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.

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