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Definition of Bourrees
1. bourree [n] - See also: bourree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bourrees
Literary usage of Bourrees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pine Plantations on the Sand-wastes of France by John Croumbie Brown (1878)
""As to the yield of powder, pine bourrees take the highest place. ... 100 bourrees
may be carbonised at the following cost:— Price of 100 bourrees, . ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1846)
"In Janus hats,* with beaks that point both ways, Then lively rusties dance their
gay bourrees;] With painted sabots strike the noisy ground, While bagpipes ..."
3. A History of the Pianoforte and Pianoforte Players by Oskar Bie, Ernest Edward Kellett, Edward Woodall Naylor (1899)
"... ravishing bourrees, rococo gavottes, ornamental minuets, the exquisitely
delicate passepied in E minor —these all lie so thick one on another, ..."
4. Beethoven and His Forerunners by Daniel Gregory Mason (1904)
"... serious movements of the eighteenth century suites, and how the rhythms of
the popular dances were wrought into their idealized gavottes, bourrees, ..."
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