bourrée
noun
an old French and Spanish dance, somewhat like a gavotte.
bourrées
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pluralof bourrée.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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She fills the space with an array of battements and bourrées, chaîné turns and arabesques; at one point she skips up a spiral staircase like a happy child.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
And as much as the dancers reach out for one another — with a splayed hand shooting forward, or bourrées contracting backward — we also see their wholeness as individuals.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2022
Her delicate Odette held arabesques for impossibly long moments, Rausch’s tiny bourrées offstage executed with such precision that she appeared to float in a cloud of mist.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
As she bourrées circles around the insistent Poet, her blond hair bounces at her waist, and her glittering eyes stare into an abyss.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2011
Who has not felt interested in the jetées and pas de bourrées of the ancien régime, when accomplished at court by Condés, Contis, Montpensiers, Montmorencys, Rohans, Guises!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various
