Usually means: Baroque dance in lively tempo.
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  1. gigue: Merriam-Webster
  2. gigue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gigue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gigue: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gigue: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gigue, gigue: Wordnik
  7. gigue: Wiktionary
  8. gigue: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. gigue: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Gigue, gigue: Dictionary.com
  11. Gigue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Gigue (m), gigue (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. gigue: FreeDictionary.org
  14. gigue: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. gigue: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. gigue: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  5. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gigue)

▸ noun:  an Irish dance, derived from the jig, used in the Partita form (Baroque Period).

Similar:
galliard, gaillarde, gavot, gailliarde, gnossienne, half gyp, whole gyp, galop, half gip, gallopade, more...

Opposite:
sarabande, minuet, pavane

Types:
gigahertz, more...

Adjectives:
french, final, lively, fugal, old, italian, slow, rollicking, baroque, brilliant, customary



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Similar:
galliard, gaillarde, gavot, gailliarde, gnossienne, half gyp, whole gyp, galop, half gip, gallopade, more...

Opposite:
sarabande, minuet, pavane

Types:
gigahertz, more...

Adjectives:
french, final, lively, fugal, old, italian, slow, rollicking, baroque, brilliant, customary



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