gavot, gavotte (gavot)

[F. garotte, fem., 2. Music for such a dance, or in its rhythm, which is duple and quick. Gavots are frequent in old-fashioned suites, and have recently come again into favor. The little French chevalier opposite... might be heard in his apartment of nights playing tremulous old gavottes and minuets on a wheezy old fiddle. Thackeray , Vanity Fair, xxxviii. gavotta (ga-vot'tä), n. [Italianized form of gavotte .] Same as garot .