chassé

UK/ˈʃæseɪ/US/ʃæˈseɪ/

noun

A gliding movement in dance (especially ballet) with the same foot always leading.

OriginFrench chassé →
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Meanings

nounchassé (plural chassés)

plural chassés · alternative chasse

  1. danceA gliding movement in dance (especially ballet) with the same foot always leading.
verbchassé (third-person singular simple present chassés, present participle chasséing, simple past and past participle chasséed or chasséd)

present singular third person chassés · participle present chasséing · participle past chasséed · past chasséed · participle past chasséd · past chasséd · alternative chasse

  1. intransitiveTo perform this step.
  2. slangtransitiveTo dismiss.

    Garrick soon found out this double dealing, and chasséd him promptly.

    1868, Percy Fitzgerald, The Life of David Garrick, page 32
    1 more example

    We believe that this sans-culotte Pillet or Pillard, Pendard or Fuyard, was so put to his shifts that the want of both might have chasséd him from decent society.

    1817, The Literary Gazette

Origin

  1. Frenchchassé
  2. Frenchchassé
  3. Englishchassé

Borrowed from French chassé.

More words from French

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Translations

Bulgarian пръждосвам, пръждосам
  • пръждосвам (prăždosvam)(slang) to dismiss — see also dismiss
  • пръждосам (prăždosam)(slang) to dismiss — see also dismiss
French pas chassé
  • pas chasségliding movement in dance
Polish chassé, wykonywać chassé
  • chasségliding movement in dance
  • wykonywać chasséto perform a chassé
  • wykonać chasséto perform a chassé
  • odrzucać(slang) to dismiss — see also dismiss
  • odrzucić(slang) to dismiss — see also dismiss

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with chassé

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APA

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Chicago

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