Bourrée

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A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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The bourrée (, French pronunciation: [buʁe] ; Occitan: borrèia; also in England, borry or bore) is a dance of French origin and the words and music that accompany it. The bourrée resembles the gavotte in that it is in double time and often has a dactylic rhythm.

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