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How to pronounce sashay in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms chasse
Type of dance
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Synonyms excursion, expedition, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip
Type of journey, journeying
Has types airing, field trip


after cautious sashays into the field.
Type Words
Synonyms chasse
Type of dance step, step
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Synonyms sidle
Type of move
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Synonyms cock, prance, ruffle, strut, swagger, tittup
Type of walk
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Type of contradance, contredanse, country-dance, country dancing, contra danse

Examples of sashay

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Last week's election was the first national test of this projected grand sashay.
From the time.com
Bright acidity and silky tannins allow the fruit to sashay to a beautiful finish.
From the thenewstribune.com
Elle's Delta Nu sisters are shot up through the floor to sashay and air-punch.
From the smh.com.au
But it would be easier to get 10 cats to sashay down Oxford Street in a straight line.
From the guardian.co.uk
Today, pedestrians sashay across either texting or talking on the phone.
From the kentucky.com
Young women sashay among the crowd balancing plates of mangoes and yams on their heads.
From the guardian.co.uk
Elianna Stanners, 4, can sashay with the best of them, even when it's not time to sashay.
From the al.com
Pinky would sashay around the projects in tight skirts and sweaters and drive boys crazy.
From the courier-journal.com
They sashay along, a shifting kaleidoscope of brightly coloured uniforms.
From the independent.co.uk
More examples
  • A square dance figure; partners circle each other taking sideways steps
  • Sidle: move sideways
  • Chasse: (ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading
  • Tittup: to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"
  • Chasse: perform a chasse step, in ballet
  • Excursion: a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"
  • Chasse or chassu00E9 (French for "to chase") is a dance step used in many dances in many variations. All variations are triple-step patterns of gliding character in a "step-together-step" pattern. The word came from ballet terminology.
  • A maneuver that offsets the trajectory to the left or right, but maintains the same heading.
  • To glide, move, or proceed easily or nonchalantly