entrechat

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Any foreign General at the head of fifty thousand trained, picked troops would risk it, and cut an 'entrechat' for joy of the chance.

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  1. noun A jump in ballet during which the dancer crosses the legs a number of times, alternately back and forth.

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  • Any foreign General at the head of fifty thousand trained, picked troops would risk it, and cut an 'entrechat' for joy of the chance. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • "'What is the matter?' said Rina, executing a magnificent _entrechat_. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844
  • Dérry ãir détente discothèque díscoték divorcé man, divorcée woman; divorcee either divorsây; divorcêe droit dwà droit du seigneur eau de Cologne ôdaco-lône eau de parfum ôda-twà-lét eau-de-vie ôda-vêe è-clà éclaircissement eclaircìsmàn emboû-shûre or óm - embourgeoisement ombŏurzhwazmón émigré émigrè en banc ón bónk en bloc, bloc ón blóck, blóc en brochette ón broshét en clair ón Clãir enclave énclave, ónclave en famille ón famì enfant terrible ón fànté-rìbl en fête ón fét en masse ón máss en passant -- in passing: in chess, of a pawn taking a pawn that has reached the same rank as one's own only by virtue of the fact that on its first move a pawn has the option of moving two squares en prise ón prêez en rapport ón rá-pŏr en route ón roûte ensemble ón sómbl ensilage ón silàzh en suite ón swêet entente cordiale óntónt cordiàl entourage ónturàzh entrechat óntrəshà óntrəmây entrepôt óntrəpô entrepreneur óntrəprənër entresol óntrəsól equipage ekípàzh esprit de corps espreedəcŏr estaminet éstáminay etiquette étikét étude âytûde etui ây-twì façade fassàd fait accompli fétəcóm-plêe fatigue fətêeg fauteuil foe toô ê fauve fôv faut-naïf fôe nîgh êef fiancé man, fiancée woman fì-ànsây flamboyant flambŏyant flânerie flánə-rìe flâneur flanëur foie gras fwà-grà folie à deux —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • The 'Twickenham' seems to perform a sort of educated monkey kind of ridiculously decorous pirouette and entrechat before the 'Pryme.' —  Sandra Belloni — Volume 2
  • The 'Twickenham' seems to perform a sort of educated monkey kind of ridiculously decorous pirouette and entrechat before the —  Sandra Belloni — Complete
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  1. French, earlier entrechas, alteration (influenced by entre, between, and chasse, chase) of Italian (capriola) intrecciata, intricate (caper), feminine past participle of intrecciare, to intertwine : in-, in (from Latin; see in-2) + treccia, tress; see tress.

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  1. French, from Italian intrecciata (sc. capriola), a complicated caper, past participle of intrecciare, complicate, from in, in, + treccia, plait, tress.
 

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