battement

• “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

• “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.”

  Tonya Plank: Lifetime Premieres New Dance Show Meant To Bring Families Together, But Could It's Good Intentions Backfire?

• “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

• “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.”

  Tonya Plank: What's With This Prime-Time Dance Craze?

• “Et c pas ma respiration mais bien le rythme de mes battement de coeur.”

  pinku-tk Diary Entry

• “Aussi j'ai entendu un battement d'ailes dans l'air, un battement d'ailes gigantesques.”

  Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “That is, at those intervals they attend to the apparent motions, and to the battement of sounds of the bodies around them, and for a moment mistake them for those real motions of the ship, and noise of wheels, which they had lately been accustomed to: or at these intervals of reverie, or on the approach of sleep, these supposed motions or sounds may be produced entirely by imagination.”

  Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life

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