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Etymology
Borrowed from French chassé.
Noun
chassé (plural chassés)
- (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)
- (intransitive) To perform this step.
- (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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Pronunciation
Noun
chassé m (plural chassés)
- (dance) a chassé
Participle
chassé (feminine chassée, masculine plural chassés, feminine plural chassées)
- past participle of chasser
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