sissonne

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French

Noun

sissonne (plural sissonnes)

1. (ballet) A jump starting with two feet on the ground and ending with only one.
   • 2008 May 12, Alastair Macaulay, “City Ballet’s Itinerary: Robbins and Beyond”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The pairs of backward-diagonal traveling sissonnes (jumps from two legs to one) are another motif so accentuated as to become irresistible.

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