Definition of Chasse

1. Noun. (ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading.

Exact synonyms: Sashay
Category relationships: Ballet, Concert Dance
Generic synonyms: Dance Step, Step
Derivative terms: Sashay, Sashay

2. Verb. Perform a chasse step, in ballet.
Exact synonyms: Sashay
Generic synonyms: Dance
Derivative terms: Sashay

Definition of Chasse

1. n. A movement in dancing, as across or to the right or left.

2. v. i. To make the movement called chassé; as, all chassé; chassé to the right or left.

3. n. A small potion of spirituous liquor taken to remove the taste of coffee, tobacco, or the like; -- originally chasse-café, lit., "coffee chaser."

Definition of Chasse

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of chassé) ¹

2. Verb. (alternative spelling of chassé) ¹

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

4. Verb. (intransitive) To perform this step. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chasse

1. to perform a dance movement [v CHASSED, CHASSEING, CHASSES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chasse

chasma
chasmal
chasmata
chasmed
chasmic
chasmically
chasmier
chasmiest
chasmlike
chasmogamous
chasmogamy
chasmophyte
chasmophytes
chasms
chasmy
chast

Literary usage of Chasse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1908)
"Le Livre de chasse (1387-1391), or Gaston Phoebus. ... La chasse Royale. By King Charles IX of France, and dedicated to King Louis XIII of France. ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1908)
"La chasse Royale. By King Charles IX of France, and dedicated to King Louis XIII of France. Edited by H. Chevreul. Paris, 1858. 5. ..."

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