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Definition of Chasse
1. Verb. Perform a chasse step, in ballet.
2. Noun. (ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading.
Category relationships: Ballet, Concert Dance
Generic synonyms: Dance Step, Step
Derivative terms: Sashay, Sashay
Definition of Chasse
1. n. A movement in dancing, as across or to the right or left.
2. v. i. To make the movement called chassé; as, all chassé; chassé to the right or left.
3. n. A small potion of spirituous liquor taken to remove the taste of coffee, tobacco, or the like; -- originally chasse-café, lit., "coffee chaser."
Definition of Chasse
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of chassé) ¹
2. Verb. (alternative spelling of chassé) ¹
3. Noun. (dance) A gliding movement in dance (especially ballet) with the same foot always leading. ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive) To perform this step. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chasse
1. to perform a dance movement [v CHASSED, CHASSEING, CHASSES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chasse
| chasma chasmal chasmata chasmed chasmic chasmically chasmier chasmiest chasmlike chasmogamous | chasmogamy chasmophyte chasmophytes chasms chasmy chast |
Literary usage of Chasse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1908)
"Le Livre de chasse (1387-1391), or Gaston Phoebus. ... La chasse Royale. By King
Charles IX of France, and dedicated to King Louis XIII of France. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1908)
"La chasse Royale. By King Charles IX of France, and dedicated to King Louis XIII
of France. Edited by H. Chevreul. Paris, 1858. 5. ..."
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