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glissade

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8 lettersPronunciation /ɡlɪˈseɪd/Part of speech noun, verbSorted adegilssStarts with GEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. (ballet) a gliding or sliding step in ballet

Word origin

Borrowed from French glissade.

Used in a sentence

  • Flinging himself on hands and knees he dragged the girl down with him. As he did so two of her companions came sliding down to their assistance, and the four glissaded back to the deckhouse as the following roll began.
  • He slithers like a limbo dancer under alder thickets girding the cliff faces. Trailing diamond sprays of ice, he glissades fearlessly across snowfields that plunge into blue infinity.

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