poussette

French

• Rhymes: -ɛt

poussette (plural poussettes)

1. A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.
   • 1846, Charles Dickens, The Battle of Life

     But, now, the Bird of Paradise was seen to flutter down the middle; and the little bells began to bounce and jingle in poussette; and the Doctor's rosy face spun round and round, like an expressive peg-top highly varnished; and breathless Mr. Craggs began to doubt already, whether country dancing had been made 'too easy,' like the rest of life; and Mr. Snitchey, with his nimble cuts and capers, footed it for Self and Craggs, and half-a-dozen more.

2. (card games) A method of cheating in card games, whereby a player surreptitiously changes his or her stake after the cards are dealt.

poussette (third-person singular simple present poussettes, present participle poussetting, simple past and past participle poussetted)

1. To waltz around each other, as two couples do in a contra dance.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Tennyson to this entry?)

• IPA^(key): /pusɛt/

poussette f (plural poussettes)

1. pushchair (UK), stroller (US)
2. pushpin

• “poussette” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).