bourrée
[ boo-rey; French boo-rey ]
noun,plural bour·rées [boo-reyz; French boo-rey]. /bʊˈreɪz; French buˈreɪ/.
an old French and Spanish dance, somewhat like a gavotte.
the music for it.
Origin of bourrée
11700–10; <French: literally, bundle of brushwood, originally, the twigs with which the bundle was stuffed (the dance may once have been done around brushwood bonfires); noun use of past participle (feminine) of bourrer to stuff, fill, verbal derivative of bourre hair, fluff <Late Latin burra wool, coarse fabric
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British Dictionary definitions for bourrée
bourrée
/ (ˈbʊəreɪ) /
noun
a traditional French dance in fast duple time, resembling a gavotte
a piece of music composed in the rhythm of this dance
Origin of bourrée
1C18: from French bourrée a bundle of faggots (it was originally danced round a fire of faggots)
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