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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To walk or proceed, especially in an easy or casual manner.
  2. v. To strut or flounce in a showy manner: sashaying around the dinner party in his fancy new clothes.
  3. v. To perform the chassé in dancing.
  4. v. To move in a sideways manner.
  5. n. A chassé.
  6. n. An excursion; an outing.
  7. n. A figure in square dancing in which partners circle each other by taking sideways steps.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A chassé.
  2. n. A sequence of sideways steps in a circle in square dancing.
  3. v. To walk casually or showily; to strut, swagger or flounce.
  4. v. To chassé when dancing.
  5. v. To move sideways.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading
  2. v. to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
  3. v. perform a chasse step, in ballet
  4. v. move sideways
  5. n. a square dance figure; partners circle each other taking sideways steps
  6. n. a journey taken for pleasure

Etymologies

  1. Alteration of chassé.

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  • nahiku888 I can't wait to use this word again- it is a rare opportunity to sneak this word in ----! Jun 20, 2009

‘sashay’ has been looked up 2221 times, loved by 6 people, added to 50 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 12.