Post by t-bob on Jan 26, 2019 10:03:34 GMT -5
SASHAY
verb
1. Informal. to glide, move, or proceed easily or nonchalantly: She just sashayed in as if she owned the place.
2. Informal. to chassé in dancing.
Quotes
... the barman had been of the opinion that the whole karaoke evening was going to be an utter bust; but then the little old man had sashayed into the room ... -- Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys, 2005 She too had endured some hard times and she too could sashay in a housecoat. -- Alan Cumming, "Introduction," to Goodbye to Berlin, 2012
Origin
Nobody, but nobody, could sashay, “walk nonchalantly,” like Jack Benny across the front of a stage. Sashay is an Americanism, a metathetic variant (or mispronunciation if one prefers) of chassé, the French term for a gliding step performed in a quadrille or square dancing. (Chassé is the past participle of chasser “to chase.”) Sashay entered English in the 19th century
verb
1. Informal. to glide, move, or proceed easily or nonchalantly: She just sashayed in as if she owned the place.
2. Informal. to chassé in dancing.
Quotes
... the barman had been of the opinion that the whole karaoke evening was going to be an utter bust; but then the little old man had sashayed into the room ... -- Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys, 2005 She too had endured some hard times and she too could sashay in a housecoat. -- Alan Cumming, "Introduction," to Goodbye to Berlin, 2012
Origin
Nobody, but nobody, could sashay, “walk nonchalantly,” like Jack Benny across the front of a stage. Sashay is an Americanism, a metathetic variant (or mispronunciation if one prefers) of chassé, the French term for a gliding step performed in a quadrille or square dancing. (Chassé is the past participle of chasser “to chase.”) Sashay entered English in the 19th century
