What is "gavot"

Gavot \Gav"ot\, Gavotte \Gav"otte\(? or ?; 277), n. [F. gavotte, fr. Gavots, a people inhabiting a mountainous district in France, called Gap.] (Mus.) A kind of difficult, old formal French dance in quadruple time. [WordNet sense 1]

2. Music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte, having a dance tune which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over.

n. (alternative form of gavotte English)

Gavot may refer to:

• Gavòt, a subdialect of Vivaro-Alpine Occitan.
• Gavotte, a dance that exists in both folk forms and historical court forms.