posé

See also: pose, Pose, and pøse

English

Etymology

French posé (“placed, posed”).

Adjective

posé (not comparable)

1. (ballet, dance) Held in position for a prolonged period.
   • 1897 June, “Perversions of Delsarte”, in S.S. Curry, editor, Expression: A Quarterly Review of Art, Literature, and the Spoken Word:

     This perversion illustrates a tendency on the part of even educated people to call everything which is posé or exhibitional in action by the name of Delsarte.

   • 1960, Dancing Times, page 352:

     Dégagé with the right foot, the left; posé on point: coupé with the right foot behind, left foot in fondu; small développé to the side with the left foot, the right foot posé on point;

   • 2005, Gay Morris, Moving Words: Re-Writing Dance, page 19:

     The dance opens with a développé posé fondu in arabesque followed by a step back.

   • 2016, Maratt Mythili Anoop, Varun Gulati, Scripting Dance in Contemporary India, page 165:

     A classical ballet syllabus has a similar structure, where steps are grouped together into sets such as posé, jeté, batterie etc.

Further reading

• “posé”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• John Woodward, George Burnett (1892) A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 217: “A few other attitudes are enumerated by heralds, but though sometimes used for crests, are rarely if ever found in arms; such is statant, in which the lion stands with all four legs upon the ground. In French blazon this is described as posé.”
• Henry Gough, James Parker (1894) A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 375: “The term statant (fr. posé) is also found occasionally applied to the lion, that is standing with both the fore […]”

Anagrams

• ESOP, PEOs, epos, opes, peos, peso, poes, sope

French

Participle

posé (feminine posée, masculine plural posés, feminine plural posées)

1. past participle of poser

Further reading

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

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

From French reposer (“to rest”), compare Haitian Creole repoze.

Verb

posé

1. to rest

References

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Spanish

Verb

posé

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of posar