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Dance presented outside lacking restraint (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

gavotte

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'dance' is the definition.
(I know that gavotte is an Folk dance)

'presented outside lacking restraint' is the wordplay.
'presented' becomes 'gave' ('give' can be a synonym of 'present').
'outside' indicates putting letters inside.
'lacking restraint' becomes 'ott' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'gave' going around 'ott' is 'GAVOTTE'.

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(Other definitions for gavotte that I've seen before include "Tag vote (anag) - dance" , "merry dance" , "Dance of French origin" , "steps taken" , "Former French dance" .)

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