Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A country-dance figure in which couples or a couple join hands and swing around the floor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To swing round in couples, as in a country-dance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.
- intransitive verb rare To perform a certain movement in a dance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.
- verb To perform a certain movement in a dance.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A grandmother with an American accent is chatting to a baby in a poussette.
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A grandmother with an American accent is chatting to a baby in a poussette.
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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A grandmother with an American accent is chatting to a baby in a poussette.
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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A grandmother with an American accent is chatting to a baby in a poussette.
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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A grandmother with an American accent is chatting to a baby in a poussette.
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Next, we pack our gummy starfish into the two-seated poussette.
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I have to say,imagining someone “avec un bebe dans les bras et un sapin dans la poussette” made me laugh for a while.
Tadpole magic 2004
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Southampton Water on a fine day: he had tired his rate of sailing down the middle of a country dance with some fair partner; and tacked and wore as required to the mazes of poussette and right and left.
The King's Own Frederick Marryat 1820
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= PK, K stressed pirouét pis aller pêace állây pláteau, pláteaux plural pláttô, plátôz; in both, the second syllable is stressed in AmE pot-pourri pôpu-rêe pouf, pouffe, pouffet poùf, poùf, poùffay poularde poûlarde pourboire porbwàr pourparler porpàrlay pousse-café poûss-cafây poussette poû-sét prelude première prémiãir promenade prómenàde proneur prón-ër protégé prôtezhây
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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= PK, K stressed pirouét pis aller pêace állây pláteau, pláteaux plural pláttô, plátôz; in both, the second syllable is stressed in AmE pot-pourri pôpu-rêe pouf, pouffe, pouffet poùf, poùf, poùffay poularde poûlarde pourboire porbwàr pourparler porpàrlay pousse-café poûss-cafây poussette poû-sét prelude première prémiãir promenade prómenàde proneur prón-ër protégé prôtezhây
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
bilby commented on the word poussette
These two examples appear to suggest some kind of carriage for infants.
A grandmother with an American accent is chatting to a baby in a poussette.
French Word-A-Day:
Next, we pack our gummy starfish into the two-seated poussette.
Adventures in Babysitting, Part 1
February 14, 2018