chasse
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- verb In dancing, to execute a step or gliding motion (known as the chasse) in which one foot is kept in advance of the other.
- verb To move or make one's way with gliding steps, as across a crowded room: as, before long he chassed up to me.
- verb To cause to chasse toward the door; dismiss.
- noun In dancing, a step or gliding motion in which one foot is kept in advance of the other.
Examples
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The chasse is the side step, the easiest step in the fox trot and the basis of the old-fashioned two step.
Arthur Murray, ‘Chasse, Basis of Two-Step, Is Easy One,’ The Toledo News-Bee, December 29, 1932
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When Katrina Baker, Renee Belise and Gabrielle Russell - three local children who will perform in 'The Nutcracker' ballet - chasse across the stage at Lewiston Junior High School on Saturday, it will be the first time they have danced with world-famous ballet stars.
'Twenty local youths to dance in 'Nutcracker,'' Sun Journal, December 14, 1993
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Virginia Beach native CJ Tyson came within a chassé of being part of [the top 20 dancers of ‘So You Think You Can Dance’], but was cut at the final callback.
Note
This word comes from the French, ‘chasser,’ to chase, hunt. ‘Sashay,’ to strut or flounce in a showy manner, is an alteration of ‘chasse.’
