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Webster 1913 Edition
Bourree
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Bour-rée
,Noun.
[F.]
(Mus.)
An old French dance tune in common time.
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English
Noun
bourrée (plural bourrées)
- A baroque dance of French origin, common in Auvergne and Biscay in Spain in the 17th century.
- A piece of music in character with such a dance.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 309:
- Stationed just outside the main gate, the band is hammering away at ‘Rule Britannia’ and the bourrée from the ‘Royal Fireworks Music.’
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 309: