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plural chassés
(dance) A gliding movement in dance (especially ballet) with the same foot always leading. examples
third-person singular simple present chassés, present participle chasséing, simple past and past participle chasséed or chasséd
(intransitive) To perform this step. examples
(transitive, slang) To dismiss. quotations
We believe that this sans-culotte Pillet or Pillard, Pendard or Fuyard, was so put to his shifts that the want of both might have chasséd him from decent society.
1817, The Literary Gazette
Garrick soon found out this double dealing, and chasséd him promptly.
1868, Percy Fitzgerald, The Life of David Garrick, page 32