chassé-croisé

plural chassés-croisés · plural chassé-croisés

1. danceA figure between two partners, in which one chassés left then right, while the other chassés right then left.
2. A situation in which things swap, shuffle, cross over or cross past each other in some way.
   1. datedfigurativelyA role reversal.

      By a very singular chassé-croisé it is the English scheme which, for the “hissing-palatal” (English sh), proposes ç, and the German which recommends the sign ś, whereas the ś was first very generally used in English transliterations and the ç in Continental.

      1895, “Tenth International Congress of Orientalists, Held at Geneva. Report of the Transliteration Committee.”, in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, October 1895, page 886 of 879-892

      Synonyms: switch-up

   2. datedfigurativelyComings and goings; hustle and bustle.