glissade

pronunciation

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  • Noun:
    (ballet) a gliding or sliding step in ballet
  • Verb:
    perform a glissade, in ballet

Word Origin

glissade (n.)
in dancing, 1843, from French glissade, from glisser "to slip, slide" (13c.), from Frankish *glidan or some other Germanic source (cognate with Dutch glissen), from Proto-Germanic *glidan "to glide" (see glide (v.)). Earlier in English as a verb (1832).

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