I believe in gavots at parties only if they strengthen muscles for milking time.

He gavotted a few Lines with the Lily.

Mr. Byles Gridley looked on gravely, thinking of the minuets and the gavots of his younger days.

The fantastic melodies of wandering gypsy songs went throbbing through the room; rollicking gavots, Hungarian dances, low and slumbrous nocturnes.

* * * He was a native of Rhode Island; his name was Gavot.