bourrée

[ boo-rey; French boo-rey ]

noun,plural bour·rées [boo-reyz; French boo-rey]. /bʊˈreɪz; French buˈreɪ/.
  1. an old French and Spanish dance, somewhat like a gavotte.

  2. the music for it.

Origin of bourrée

1
1700–10; <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
  1. a traditional French dance in fast duple time, resembling a gavotte

  2. a piece of music composed in the rhythm of this dance

Origin of bourrée

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C18: from French bourrée a bundle of faggots (it was originally danced round a fire of faggots)

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