bourrée

See also: bourree and Bourrée

English

Etymology

From French bourrée.

Noun

bourrée (plural bourrées)

1. A baroque dance of French origin, common in Auvergne and Biscay in Spain in the 17th century.
2. A piece of music in character with such a dance.
   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 309:

     Stationed just outside the main gate, the band is hammering away at ‘Rule Britannia’ and the bourrée from the ‘Royal Fireworks Music.’

Translations

a baroque dance of French origin

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 佈雷舞曲 / 布雷舞曲 (bùléiwǔqǔ)

• French: bourrée (fr) f
• German: Bourrée (de) f
• Russian: бурре (ru) (burre)
• Swedish: bourré (sv) c

Verb

bourrée (third-person singular simple present bourrées, present participle bourréeing, simple past and past participle bourréed)

1. To perform this dance.
   • 1991 April 6, Ron Caldwell, “Kind of Stranger”, in Gay Community News, page 16:

     As a physical presence, nevertheless, he can bourree with the best of them and packs a mean port-de-bras.

French

Pronunciation

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Participle

bourrée f sg

1. feminine singular of bourré

Adjective

bourrée

1. feminine singular of bourré

Noun

bourrée f (plural bourrées)

1. (music) bourrée
2. (now rare) faggot (bundle of sticks); torch

Further reading

• “bourrée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• ébourre, ébourré