pas de chat

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pas de chat (shä)

n. pl. pas de chat

A ballet jump in which the feet are lifted, one after the other, to the level of the opposite knee.

[French : pas, step + de, of + chat, cat.]

pas de chat (French) [pɑdʃa]

n pl pas de chat

(Performing Arts / Ballet) Ballet a catlike leap

[French: cat's step]

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ballet			In the latter, she was a gale force, answering Tchaikovsky's arpeggios with quadruple pirouettes and the fortissimos with yard-high pas de chats. New York City Ballet by Carman, Joseph / Dance Magazine I do love it, though, when he throws in a recognizable ballet step—an irrelevant pas de chat here, a pointless fouetté there, a sad little clump of piqué turns—to show that he’s really giving us a ballet, not just a succession of showbiz routines. Smuin's Pointless Nostalgia; Hubbard Street's Sheer Joy by Robert Gottlieb / The New York Observer But they are already experts at pliAs, pirouettes and pas de chats. BALLET TOTS! by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)			parure Parus Parus atricapillus Parus bicolor Parus caeruleus Parus carolinensis Parusia parvanimity Parvati parve parvenu parvenue parvenuism parvifoliate parvis Parvitude parvo Parvolin Parvoline parvovirus Parzival PAS pas de basque pas de bourrée Pas de Calais pas de chat pas de deux pas de quatre pas de trois pas op pas seul Pas-de-Calais Pasadena Pasan pasang Pasargadae Pasay Pascal pascal celery Pascal compiler Pascal's law Pascal's law of fluid pressures Pascal's triangle Pascal's wager Pascal, Blaise Pasch Pasch egg Pasch flower Pascha paschal Paschal candle			PARW PARW/CC PARWC PARWCC Parwill PARWQCP PARWU Paryavaran Avam Gramin Vikas Sansthan Parylene parylene capacitor Paryusana Paryushan Paryushana Parzam Parzifal Parzival pas pas pas pas pas pas pas Pas Daction pas de basque pas de bourree pas de bourrée Pas de Calais Pas de Calais Pas de Calais pas de chat pas de deux pas de deux pas de deux pas de quatre Pas de Quoi pas de trois pas de trois pas op pas seul pas seuls Pas, the Pas, the PAS-1 PAS-ADD PAS-C Pas-dammim Pas-de-Calais Pas-de-Calais Pas-de-Calais Pas-de-Calais (department) Pas-de-Calais (department) Pas-de-Calais (department) pas-de-côte pas-de-souris Pas1 PAS2 Pasa Pasa Pasa Pasa

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