chassé

• chasse

Borrowed from French chassé.

chassé (plural chassés)

1. (dance) A gliding movement in dance (especially ballet) with the same foot always leading.

chassé (third-person singular simple present chassés, present participle chasséing, simple past and past participle chasséed or chasséd)

1. (intransitive) To perform this step.
2. (transitive, slang) To dismiss.
   • 1817, The Literary Gazette:

     We believe that this sans-culotte Pillet or Pillard, Pendard or Fuyard, was so put to his shifts that the want of both might have chasséd him from decent society.

   • 1868, Percy Fitzgerald, The Life of David Garrick, page 32:

     Garrick soon found out this double dealing, and chasséd him promptly.

• sashay

• Sachse, cashes, chases

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.se/
• Homophone: chasser

chassé m (plural chassés)

1. (dance) a chassé

chassé (feminine chassée, masculine plural chassés, feminine plural chassées)

1. past participle of chasser

• chassé-croisé

• “chassé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• saches
• séchas