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▪ I. poussette, n.|puːˈsɛt|
[a. F. poussette, dim. of pousse a push; see -ette.]
An act of poussetting: see poussette v.
1814Moore Mem. (1853) II. 31 Seeing the pretty tremble of her eyelids in a poussette. 1830Marryat King's Own xxxix, The mazes of poussette and right and left. 1847Alb. Smith Chr. Tadpole xii, They gave a rapid poussette like the top and bottom people in Sir Roger de Coverley.
▪ II. pouˈssette, v.
[f. prec. n.]
intr. To dance round and round with hands joined, as a couple in a country dance.
1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr., Punch's Apoth., Dance, Regan! dance, with Cordelia and Goneril—Down the middle, up again, poussette and cross. a1839T. H. Bayly Songs & Ball. II. 283 The young poussetting, as the old survey. 1887Cleland True to Type II. 206 The motley crowd was happy—poussetted, chassied and performed feats.
fig.1873H. Morley First Sk. Eng. Lit. (1882) 172 Europe was little edified to see the dance..set up by the two aged popes, who poussetted to each other about France and Italy.
Hence pouˈssetting vbl. n.
1862Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xiv. viii. (1872) V. 258 The pains he took with her elegant pirouettings and poussettings. |