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gavotte noun & verb. L17.

A. noun.
A medium-paced dance popular in the 18th cent. L17.
A piece of music for this dance, composed in common time with each phrase beginning on the third beat of the bar; a piece of music in this rhythm, esp. one which forms a movement of a suite. E18.
b. verb intrans. Dance a gavotte. E19.