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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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bourree

French folk dance with many varieties, characteristically danced with quick, skipping steps. The dancers occasionally wear wooden clogs to emphasize the sounds made by their feet. Notably associated with Auvergne, bourrees are also danced elsewhere in France and in Vizcaya, Spain. Michael Praetorius mentions the bourree in his musical compendium Syntagma musicum in 1615.

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