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bour⋅rée

  [boo-rey; Fr. boo-rey]
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–noun, plural -rées  [-reyz; Fr. -rey] .
1. an old French and Spanish dance, somewhat like a gavotte.
2. the music for it.
Origin:
1700–10; < F: lit., bundle of brushwood, orig., the twigs with which the bundle was stuffed (the dance may once have been done around brushwood bonfires); n. use of ptp. (fem.) of bourrer to stuff, fill, v. deriv. of bourre hair, fluff < LL burra wool, coarse fabric
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bour·rée   (bŏŏ-rā', bōō-)   
n.  

    1. An old French dance resembling the gavotte, usually in quick duple time beginning with an upbeat.

    2. The music for this dance.

  2. A pas de bourrée.


[French, from bourrer, to stuff, from bourre, hair, fluff, from Late Latin burra, a shaggy garment.]
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