Gavotte (noun)
ga-vot
A medium-paced French dance, popular in the 18th century.
French, from Provençal gavoto ‘dance of the mountain people’, from Gavot ‘native of the Alps’.
Example sentences
“Head held high, she danced the gavotte.”
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