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Meaning
noun an old formal French dance in quadruple time
noun music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte
originFrom French, from Provençal gavoto (“dance of the mountain people”), from Old Occitan Gavot (“Alp native”, literally “glutton, boor”), from gaver (“force feed”), from Old Provençal gava (“crop”); attested since the 1690s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0