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dzܰé

[ boo-rey; French boo-rey ]

noun

plural dzܰés
  1. an old French and Spanish dance, somewhat like a gavotte.
  2. the music for it.


dzܰé

/ ˈʊəɪ /

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of dzܰé1

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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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of dzܰé1

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

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“That’s your pas de dzܰé, your pas de gavotte.”

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Jackson’s moonwalk, for example, “reminds me of a ballerina with a brilliant dzܰé,” he says.

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In concert, McCartney has been known to locate the song's melody to a much earlier period in the 1950s, when he and George Harrison, wanting to show off their guitar skills, tried their hand at playing Bach's Bourrée in E Minor.

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“How you interpret it, how you feel the rise and fall of it, that’s up to you,” she told a group of students, ages 12 to 17, referring to the back-side-side footwork of a pas de dzܰé, a structured preface to “freestyle snow.”

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In a week she learned the jaunty Bourrée from Bach’s Cello Suite No. Three; soon she had developed her own little vibrato.

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