poussette
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛt
Noun
poussette (plural poussettes)
- 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.
- 1846, Charles Dickens, The Battle of Life
- (card games) A method of cheating in card games, whereby a player surreptitiously changes his or her stake after the cards are dealt.
Verb
poussette (third-person singular simple present poussettes, present participle poussetting, simple past and past participle poussetted)
- 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?)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pusɛt/
Further reading
- “poussette” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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