chassé

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See also: chasse and châsse

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from French chassé.

Noun

chassé (plural chassés)

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

Verb

chassé (third-person singular simple present chassés, present participle chasséing, simple past and past participle chasséed or chasséd)

  1. (intransitive) To perform this step.
  2. (transitive, slang) To dismiss.
    • 1817, The Literary Gazette:
      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.
    • 1868, Percy Fitzgerald, The Life of David Garrick, page 32:
      Garrick soon found out this double dealing, and chasséd him promptly.

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French

Pronunciation

Noun

chassé m (plural chassés)

  1. (dance) a chassé

Participle

chassé (feminine chassée, masculine plural chassés, feminine plural chassées)

  1. past participle of chasser

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French chassé.

Noun

chassé n

  1. (dance) a chassé

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