chassé

See also: chasse and châsse

English

Alternative forms

• chasse

Etymology

Borrowed from French chassé.

Noun

chassé (plural chassés)

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

Verb

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.

See also

• sashay

Anagrams

• Sachse, cashes, chases

French

Pronunciation

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

Noun

chassé m (plural chassés)

1. (dance) a chassé

Participle

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

1. past participle of chasser

See also

• chassé-croisé

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• saches
• séchas