glissade

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We immediately took to the word because "glissade," said with just a hint of indeterminate European accent, sounded more respectable than "sliding on our backsides down the face of a snowy mountainside with our snowshoes splayed out in front of us and our poles dragging ingloriously behind."

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  1. noun A gliding step in ballet.
  2. noun A controlled slide, in either a standing or sitting position, used in descending a steep icy or snowy incline.
  3. intransitive verb To perform a glissade.

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  • Edge performed the glissade-and-arpeggio that she had learned to interpret as a sigh: a quote from one of Brent's own lute pieces. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 01 - January 2001
  • This resulted in a two thousand-foot sideways glissade o´er a thin cover of frozen granulation, wrapped in a bumpkinesque cocoon of piecemealed long johns. —  American Chronicle
  • "The technical term is glissade," Erica Marcus said with a smile. —  NYT > Travel
  • We immediately took to the word because "glissade," said with just a hint of indeterminate European accent, sounded more respectable than "sliding on our backsides down the face of a snowy mountainside with our snowshoes splayed out in front of us and our poles dragging ingloriously behind." —  NYT > Travel
  • (And if you can master the glissade on Cannon ...?) —  NYT > Travel
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. French, from glisser, to slide, from Old French, possibly alteration (influenced by glacer, to slide) of glier, to glide, of Germanic origin; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French glissade, from glisser, slide, glide, slip, from Old Dutch glitsen, glissen, Dutch glissen = Middle Low German glischen, Low German glisken = German glitschen, slide; with verb-formative -s (as in English glimpse, cleanse, bless, etc.), from the base glid- of Dutch glijden = German gleiten = English glide: see glide.
  2. from glissade, n.
 

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