Obs. [Fr., f. the name of the inventor, Bocan, dancing master to Queen Anne of Austria.] ‘A stately figure-dance, much esteemed in the 17th cent.’ Littré.
1701. Sedley, Grumbler, I. i. Wks. II. (1776), 225. You would have a grave, serious dance, perhaps?… Well, the courante, the bocane, the sarabande?
