chassé-croisé

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from French chassés-croisés. By surface analysis, chassés +‎ croisés.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌʃæseɪk(ɹ)wæˈzeɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ʃæˌseɪk(ɹ)wæˈzeɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

chassé-croisé (plural chassés-croisés or chassé-croisés)

2. (dance) A figure between two partners, in which one chassés left then right, while the other chassés right then left.
3. (figurative, dated) A situation in which things swap, shuffle, cross over or cross past each other in some way.
   1. A role reversal.

      Synonym: switch-up

      • 1895, “Tenth International Congress of Orientalists, Held at Geneva. Report of the Transliteration Committee.”, in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland‎^[1], October 1895, page 886 of 879-892:

        By a very singular chassé-croisé it is the English scheme which, for the “hissing-palatal” (English sh), proposes ç, and the German which recommends the sign ś, whereas the ś was first very generally used in English transliterations and the ç in Continental.

   2. Comings and goings; hustle and bustle.

Further reading

• “chassé-croisé, noun.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.se.kʁwa.ze/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

chassé-croisé m (plural chassés-croisés)

1. (dance) chassé-croisé (a figure between two partners, in which one chassés left then right, while the other chassés right then left)
2. (figurative) any movement of people; (specifically) a large number of simultaneous departures and arrivals in holiday seasons, often resulting in traffic congestion
   • 2024 July 10, “En période estivale, le rappel essentiel des bonnes pratiques”, in La Provence, page 10:

     En ce premier grand week-end de chassé-croisé des vacances d'été, les marins-pompiers de Marseille appellent à la plus grande vigilance et rappellent les précautions essentielles en cette période.

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Descendants

• → English: chassés-croisés

See also

• aoûtien
• juillettiste

Further reading

• “chassé-croisé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• chassé-croisé entre les juillettistes et les aoûtiens on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr