Gav"ot [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.]

 

© Webster 1913.

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