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chassés-croisés

chassés-croisés is the plural of chassé-croisé.

Meaning of chassé-croisé

Noun

chassé-croisé (plural chassés-croisés or chassé-croisés)

  1. A figure between two partners, in which one chassés left then right, while the other chassés right then left.
  2. (dated, figuratively) A role reversal.
    • By a very singular chassé-croisé it is the English scheme which, for the “hissing-palatal” (English sh), proposes ç, and the German which recommends the sign ś, whereas the ś was first very generally used in English transliterations and the ç in Continental.1895, “Tenth International Congress of Orientalists, Held at Geneva. Report of the Transliteration Committee.”, in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, October 1895...
    Synonyms:
    switch-up
  3. (dated, figuratively) Comings and goings; hustle and bustle.

Questions about chassés-croisés

What is chassés-croisés the plural of?
Chassés-croisés is the plural of chassé-croisé.

Words near chassés-croisés in the dictionary

  1. chassé-croisés
  2. chasséd
  3. chasséed
  4. chasséing
  5. chassés
  6. chassés-croisés
  7. chast
  8. Chastacosta
  9. Chastain
  10. Chastains
  11. chaste

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