/geuh vot"/ , n.
1. an old French dance in moderately quick quadruple meter.
2. a piece of music for, or in the rhythm of, this dance, often forming one of the movements in the classical suite, usually following the saraband.
Also, gavot .
[ 1690-1700; gavoto a mountaineer of Provence, a dance of such mountaineers, appar. deriv. of gava bird's crop (prob.
gaba throat, crop, goiter), alluding to the prevalence of goiter among the mountaineers ]