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Definition of Glissades
1. glissade [v] - See also: glissade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glissades
Literary usage of Glissades
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1891)
"... is used for shorter glissades from the first string, as from I to 6, I to 1o.
For both these terms I use the following sign \ ; thus \ ^§. ..."
2. Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers: Being Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club by Alpine Club (London, England) (1862)
"Some glissades succeeded, and we began descending the rocks of our friend the
... We are soon down the remaining rocks, glissades, and slopes, ..."
3. Grammar of the Art of Dancing, Theoretical and Practical: Lessons in the by Friedrich Albert Zorn, Alfonso Josephs Sheafe, Benjamin P. Coates (1905)
"Three glissades dessous, left. Carry left to 2d position and trans- fer; Execute
a quarter-turn on left, gliding right in semi-circle to posterior 3d ..."
4. An Outline of Physical Education for Primary and Grammar Schools, Junior by Ernst Hermann (1917)
"During glissades to right the right arm should be extended diagonally sideways
upwards and the left hands held on hips. During glissades to left the left ..."
5. A Treatise on the Science of Defence: For the Sword, Bayonet, and Pike in by Anthony Gordon (1805)
"The glissades in simple quarte and tierce are dangerous, but the glissades of
seconde, prime, and quinte, are still more useless. ..."
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