Obs. Also bory. [ad. F. bourrée ‘a rustic dance belonging originally to Auvergne’ (Littré).] A kind of dance, a bourrée.
1676. Etheredge, Man of Mode, IV. i. (1684), 55. I am fit for Nothing but low dancing now, a Corant, a Boreè, Or a Minnuét.
c. 1730. Swift, Tom & Dick, Wks. 1755, IV. I. 261. Dick could neatly dance a jig, But Tom was best at borees.
