Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A dance for two, especially a dance in ballet consisting of an entrée and adagio, a variation for each dancer, and a coda.
- n. A close relationship between two people or things, as during an activity.
Wiktionary
- n. dance A dance performed by two dancers.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (ballet) a dance for two people (usually a ballerina and a danseur noble)
Etymologies
- French : pas, step + de, of, for + deux, two. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Jack Gould wrote in The New York Times, "It is only a matter of time before Chet Huntley and David Brinkley will be donning fetching leotards for their nightly pas de deux and Clive Barnes" — the Times theater critic at the time — "will be reviewing the New Hampshire primary.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pas de deux’.
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a Doppelgänger story
words you'd find in a Doppelgänger story
mistaken identity, fetch, evil twin, delusion, nephele, dead ringer, sosia, supplant, usurp, svengali, dichotomy, dialectic and 19 more...
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Dressage
A list of formal movements, exercises, terms and phrases, and words used in the art of dressage, horse-training, and judging.
turn on the haunches, shoulder-in, renvers, travers, half-pass, pirouette, turn on the forehand, shoulder-fore, leg-yield, collection, degree of collection, bend and 87 more...
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favored
visceral, twinkle, whalebone, incandescent, carousel, entangle, brevity, desolate, twirl, deltoid, graceless, tryst and 94 more...
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Dinosaurs, extended
At first, this was a list for things found in Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History by David E. Fastovsky. But now it's degenerated a bit to contain anything dinosaur or fossil related.
disarticulate, body fossil, trace fossil, apatite, soft anatomy, permineralization, replacement, articulated, disarticulated, intestine’s-eye view, ichnofossil, paleoenvironment and 270 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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madamepsychosis's Words
mollify, salubrious, prandial, coup de grace, ineluctable, metempsychosis, pedant, conatus, oeuvre, laconic, solipsism, vapid and 265 more...
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Beautiful Music
a cappella, accelerando, accompagnato, adagio, ad libitum, agitato, aleatory, alla breve, allegro, allemande, alto, andante and 548 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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Master
comprehensive
picaresque, carnivalesque, -esque, grotesque, Cocteau, necropolis, hypnopædic, mojito, imprimatur, insouciance, idyll, maestro and 239 more...
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today's word
copemate, quiddity, ere, maugre, argal, cultivar, exurb, spokesmodel, rollick, logy, cadastral, corpulent and 259 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (P)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
pagan, page, pageant, pageboy, pagoda, paisley, paladin, palfrey, paling, pampas grass, pan, panoply and 194 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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Good Words
Various words noted while reading over the past 15 years.
gravitas, telos, effulgent, apophatic, démarche, viscera, pallid, mien, expiation, portmanteau, satiety, nadir and 58 more...
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Favorite Words
the rocky road of my vanilla world
defenestration, osculate, auscultation, gonorrhea, meningococcal, diverticulitis, antidisestablishm..., duo jejunostomy, pas de deux, adagio, scoundrel, pejorative and 37 more...
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French
bon vivant, carte blanche, chef-d’oeuvre, c’est la vie, de rigueur, joie de vivre, raison d'être, precis, pince-nez, faux pas, nouveau pauvre, pas de deux and 2 more...
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foreign
demitasse, apéritif, joie de vivre, sui generis, weltschmerz, weltanschauung, l'esprit de l'esc..., magnum opus, paterfamilias, idée fixe, saudade, gestalt and 62 more...
Tweets
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super-clarice "This novel The Song Is You is a pas de deux between a young singer-songwriter and the much older man who actively, obsessively inspires her."
Kate Christensen; Always on My Mind; The New York Times; Apr 10, 2009.
"One of the many paradoxes of this place we call home is the pas de deux of life and death."
G. D. Maxwell; Screaming Into the Void; Pique Newsmagzaine (Whistler, Canada); Apr 8, 2009.
Wordsmith.org Apr 25, 2009
treeseed In ballet, a pas de deux (French, step/dance for two) is a duet in which ballet steps are performed together. It usually consists of an entrée, adagio, two variations (one for each dancer), and a coda.
_Wikipedia Feb 17, 2008