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Definition of Bourree
1. an old French dance [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bourree
Literary usage of Bourree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Pilgrimage to Auvergne, from Picardy to Le Velay by Louisa Stuart Costello (1842)
"bourree.—Montargis.^ Paris.—Rouen. OUR way from Clermont to Moulins lay through
Aigueperse la belle et longue ville, which gave to France the chancellor ..."
2. Dancing by Lilly Grove Frazer, Lilly Grove, Percy Macquoid (1895)
"The bourree belongs to the Auvergne and the Herri, and has been danced at Court
ever since ... (Rhythm anJ _) 2 The bourree is a dance of a careless form. ..."
3. Complete Musical Analysis by Alfred John Goodrich (1889)
"Reinecke, bourree in ^4-minor, Op. 175, No. a. Tours, bourree Moderne, Op. 32.
Dupont, bourree in /.'minor E. Silas, Second bourree. ..."
4. Well-known Piano Solos, how to Play Them by Charles W. Wilkinson, Edward Ellsworth Hipsher (1915)
"bourree in A Minor From the English Suites BACH FEW days since, at an orchestral
concert, when Miss Fanny Davies played the Schumann concerto, ..."
5. French Homonyms, Or, A Collection of Words Similar in Sound, But Different by John Joseph Martin (1807)
"bourree, sf bourree, sf Bourrer, v. ... bourree, a kind of dance. Bourrer, to
ram a gun, &c. ..."
6. The American History and Encyclopedia of Music by Janet M. Green, Josephine Thrall (1908)
"bourree or branle, the passepied and the minuet. The nated in Auvergne, though
some authorities call it a Spanish dance of Biscay, where it is still said to ..."
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