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Chasse   /tʃæs/   Listen
noun
Chasse  n.  
1.
A movement in dancing, as across or to the right or left.
2.
A gliding step in dancing in which one foot is kept in front of the other while moving.


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


verb
Chasse  v. i.  (Dancing) To make the movement called chassé; as, all chassé; chassé to the right or left.





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"Chasse" Quotes from Famous Books



... in a chamber at the Hospital St. Jean; the Chasse of St. Ursula is a reliquary, Gothic in design. They consist of a dozen tiny panels painted in exquisite fashion, with all the bright clarity and precision of a miniaturist, coupled with a solidity of form and lyric elegance of expression. ...
— Promenades of an Impressionist • James Huneker
... Jack?" raged the excited conspirator, swallowing half the contents of his brandy flask. As he returned it, the butts of his two revolvers and the handle of a huge couteau de chasse were plainly visible. "The fiends seem to be let loose to-day," he growled. "It would be the night of all nights! Ha!" The discharged officer noted two men in sou'westers and oilskins now toiling up the path. And his heart leaped up ...
— A Fascinating Traitor • Richard Henry Savage
... Marienbad, this writer speaks of Chopin's polichinades: "He imitated then this or that famous artist, the playing of certain pupils or compatriots, belabouring the keyboard with extravagant gestures, a wild [echevele] and romantic manner, which he called aller a la chasse ...
— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks
... be hoped their anticipations will be realised. There can be little fear, however, that their condition could be worse, or their prospects more disheartening than those which the 'potato famine' in this country, little mended by the promise of Indian corn, had occasioned. La faim chasse le loup hors du bois. To starve, or emigrate, are the only ...
— Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign • John Ashton
... CHASSE, DAVID HENDRIK, BARON, a Dutch soldier; served France under Napoleon, who called him "General Baionnette," from his zealous use of the bayonet; fought at Waterloo on the opposite side; as governor of Antwerp, ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood


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