Definition of "gigue" [‖Gigue]

• See jig1. (noun)

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• "Prologues and epilogues have become my specialty—and then a gigue in my breeches, naturellement."
• "Somehow, at the end of the play she is revived sufficiently to dance a gigue in her breeches, à la myself."
• "Beth played exquisitely and taught me the latest French gigue, much more complicated, with a very quick capriole in the first pass."