Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun In dance, a kicking movement done with a lifted leg.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A beating; striking; impulse.
- noun In music, a trill-like ornament, consisting of a slow shake of a tone with the next tone below, beginning with the latter: common in old-fashioned music.
- noun Opposed to the cadence (see
cadence , 4 ) in that in the latter the trill begins with the principal note.
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- noun ballet A ballet move involving a beating action with an extended leg
- noun obsolete A thumping or beating sensation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I attended the exhibition numerous times and often saw the social dancers gazing up at the giant screens, briefly trying to emulate a move - a leg-extending developpé, a high-kicking battement, a pointed toe and delicate fan of the arms - then return to their rhythmic Latin dancing.
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Brooke is a lovely dancer with nice lines, which she aptly demonstrated in battement kicks, excellent supported jumps in splits and attitude position (where the back leg is bent), as well as a few hard lifts where Eric gave her good height and she supported much of her own body weight.
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He's so flexible he can make really beautiful lines with those grand battement kicks in first and second position (to the front, then to the side).
Tonya Plank: Nigel Softens Up: So You Think You Can Dance Week 3 Cuts 2008
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And he had a battement kick that was technically wrong since it was bent-kneed, but probably unnoticeable given the surprising height he achieved with it.
Tonya Plank: Dancing With the Stars Season 6 Premieres: Matlin and Yamaguchi Shine 2008
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Et c pas ma respiration mais bien le rythme de mes battement de coeur.
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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Aussi j'ai entendu un battement d'ailes dans l'air, un battement d'ailes gigantesques.
Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 1877
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Dancer at the Barre, for example, a left leg is raised backwards in battement, Degas' charcoal lines growing firmer the closer the kick gets to its peak.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Tout en disant ainsi, je jette ma pierre d'une main tremblante, et avec un horrible battement de coeur, mais si heureusement qu'elle va frapper au beau-milieu de l'arbre: ce qui véritablement n'étoit pas difficile: car j'avois eu soin de le choisir fort gros et fort près.
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Tout en disant ainsi, je jette ma pierre d'une main tremblante, et avec un horrible battement de coeur, mais si heureusement qu'elle va frapper au beau-milieu de l'arbre: ce qui véritablement n'étoit pas difficile: car j'avois eu soin de le choisir fort gros et fort près.
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822
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But, as the sound of bells is the most familiar of those sounds, which have a considerable battement, the vertiginous patients, who attend to the irritative circles of sounds above described, generally compare it to the noise of bells.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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