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Definition of échappé
1. Noun. (ballet) A movement performed in ballet involving a leap from both feet simultaneously. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of échappé
1. a ballet leap [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of échappé
Literary usage of échappé
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1903)
"... et son jugement, echappe a la responsabilite qui est toute la dignite" de
1'homme, et se dispense de la solidarite, qui en est toute la beaute morale. ..."
2. An Improved French Grammar: Containing a New Method of Discovering the by John B. Ricord Madianna (1812)
"... cette faute a echappe a la justesse de son ail, this defect has escaped the
exactness of his eye, ze it has not been seen. ..."
3. The French Verb: Its Conjugation and Idiomatic Use by Charles Fletcher Martin (1910)
"Le cerf a echappe aux chiens. The stag escaped the dogs. Cette chose m'est
echappe'e de la memoirs. That matter has slipped from (escaped) my memory. t See ..."
4. Detraction Displayed by Amelia Alderson Opie (1828)
"... echappe, escaped, meaning a man who has narrowly escaped hanging; and I think
un echappe du diable is a French phrase, equivalent to our scape grace. ..."
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