posé

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See also: pose, Pose, and pøse

English

Etymology

French posé (“placed, posed”).

Adjective

posé (not comparable)

  1. (ballet, dance) Held in position for a prolonged period.
    • 1897 June, “Perversions of Delsarte”, in S.S. Curry, editor, Expression: A Quarterly Review of Art, Literature, and the Spoken Word:
      This perversion illustrates a tendency on the part of even educated people to call everything which is posé or exhibitional in action by the name of Delsarte.
    • 1960, Dancing Times, page 352:
      Dégagé with the right foot, the left; posé on point: coupé with the right foot behind, left foot in fondu; small développé to the side with the left foot, the right foot posé on point;
    • 2005, Gay Morris, Moving Words: Re-Writing Dance, page 19:
      The dance opens with a développé posé fondu in arabesque followed by a step back.
    • 2016, Maratt Mythili Anoop, Varun Gulati, Scripting Dance in Contemporary India, page 165:
      A classical ballet syllabus has a similar structure, where steps are grouped together into sets such as posé, jeté, batterie etc.

Further reading

  • “posé”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • John Woodward, George Burnett (1892) A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 217: “A few other attitudes are enumerated by heralds, but though sometimes used for crests, are rarely if ever found in arms; such is statant, in which the lion stands with all four legs upon the ground. In French blazon this is described as posé.”
  • Henry Gough, James Parker (1894) A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 375: “The term statant (fr. posé) is also found occasionally applied to the lion, that is standing with both the fore […]”

Anagrams

French

Participle

posé (feminine posée, masculine plural posés, feminine plural posées)

  1. past participle of poser

Further reading

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

From French reposer (“to rest”), compare Haitian Creole repoze.

Verb

posé

  1. to rest

References

  • Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Spanish

Verb

posé

  1. first-person singular preterite indicative of posar
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