Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A country-dance figure in which couples or a couple join hands and swing around the floor.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To swing round in couples, as in a country-dance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb rare To perform a certain movement in a dance.
  • noun A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.
  • verb To perform a certain movement in a dance.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, pushpin, diminutive of obsolete pousse, a push, from pousser, to push, from Old French poulser, pousser, to push, from Latin pulsāre, frequentative of pellere, to push; see pel- in Indo-European roots.]

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Examples

  • A grandmother with an American accent is chatting to a baby in a poussette.

    baiser - French Word-A-Day 2006

  • A grandmother with an American accent is chatting to a baby in a poussette.

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

  • A grandmother with an American accent is chatting to a baby in a poussette.

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

  • A grandmother with an American accent is chatting to a baby in a poussette.

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

  • A grandmother with an American accent is chatting to a baby in a poussette.

    baiser - French Word-A-Day 2006

  • Next, we pack our gummy starfish into the two-seated poussette.

    Adventures in Babysitting, Part 1 2004

  • I have to say,imagining someone “avec un bebe dans les bras et un sapin dans la poussette” made me laugh for a while.

    Tadpole magic 2004

  • Southampton Water on a fine day: he had tired his rate of sailing down the middle of a country dance with some fair partner; and tacked and wore as required to the mazes of poussette and right and left.

    The King's Own Frederick Marryat 1820

  • = PK, K stressed pirouét pis aller pêace állây pláteau, pláteaux plural pláttô, plátôz; in both, the second syllable is stressed in AmE pot-pourri pôpu-rêe pouf, pouffe, pouffet poùf, poùf, poùffay poularde poûlarde pourboire porbwàr pourparler porpàrlay pousse-café poûss-cafây poussette poû-sét prelude première prémiãir promenade prómenàde proneur prón-ër protégé prôtezhây

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • = PK, K stressed pirouét pis aller pêace állây pláteau, pláteaux plural pláttô, plátôz; in both, the second syllable is stressed in AmE pot-pourri pôpu-rêe pouf, pouffe, pouffet poùf, poùf, poùffay poularde poûlarde pourboire porbwàr pourparler porpàrlay pousse-café poûss-cafây poussette poû-sét prelude première prémiãir promenade prómenàde proneur prón-ër protégé prôtezhây

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

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  • These two examples appear to suggest some kind of carriage for infants.

    A grandmother with an American accent is chatting to a baby in a poussette.

    French Word-A-Day:

    Next, we pack our gummy starfish into the two-seated poussette.

    Adventures in Babysitting, Part 1

    February 14, 2018