mézair

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Etymology

From French mezzair, later mézair, from Italian mezz'aria, from mezzo (middle) + aria (air) (because it was originally a movement at height halfway between terre-à-terre and curvet).

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Noun

mézair (plural mézairs)

  1. (horse riding) In manège, a movement comprising a series of levades with small steps between.
    • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 28:
      With a mezair and a cut to the left and a pair of caprioles, Zelikman danced the horse through the tangle of men.

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