Etymology

chassé-croisé

Today it means: A figure between two partners, in which one chassés left then right, while the other chassés right then left. Full definition →

French chassés-croisés
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  1. French · learned borrowing fromchassés-croisés
  2. English todaychassé-croisé

Learned borrowing from French chassés-croisés. By surface analysis, chassés + croisés.

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