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Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of bourrée English)
n. 1 A baroque dance of French origin, common in Auvergne and Biscay in Spain in the 17th century. 2 A piece of music in character with such a dance.
Wikipedia
The bourrée (also borrèia and, in England, borry or bore) is a dance of French origin and the words and music that accompany it. The bourrée somewhat resembles the gavotte, it is in double time and often has a dactylic rhythm but it is somewhat quicker and its phrase starts with a quarter-bar anacrusis or "pick-up" whereas a gavotte has a half-bar anacrusis.
In the Baroque era, after the Academie de Dance was established by Louis XIV in 1661, the French court adapted the bourrée, like many such dances, for the purposes of concert dance. In this way it gave its name to a ballet step characteristic of the dance, a rapid movement of the feet while en pointe or demi-pointe, and so to the sequence of steps called pas de bourrée.
The bourrée became an optional movement in the classical suite of dances, and J.S. Bach, Handel and Chopin wrote bourrées, not necessarily intending them to be danced.
Usage examples of "bourree".
And now, mademoiselles, if you please: a pas de bourree couru, en cinquieme, with port de bras, ending in an arabesque.
Normally, as I bourree'd past her, Madame would be making comments like, "Long neck, Mademoiselle Romsey!
I finished the bourree and went into an arabesque, stretching my arms gracefully (I hoped).
So does Carrie Steinfeld, and it was showing as she did her bourree.
My further thanks to Janet Davis, Irene, and Sonya Stocklin, also cybercitizens of DorothyL, for their information on bars, bourree (a card game), and the parish governments of Louisiana.
More than a progress, that walking hood appeared to perform a gavotte, a bourree, which the absence of music made even clumsier.