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posé

posé adjective: held in position for a prolonged period.

Adjective

posé (not comparable)

  1. (ballet) Held in position for a prolonged period.
    • This perversion illustrates a tendency on the part of even educated people to call everything which is posé or exhibitional in action by the name of Delsarte.1897 June, “Perversions of Delsarte”, in S.S. Curry, editor, Expression: A Quarterly Review of Art, Literature, and the Spoken Word
    • Dégagé with the right foot, the left; posé on point: coupé with the right foot behind, left foot in fondu; small développé to the side with the left foot, the right foot posé on point;1960, Dancing Times, page 352

Examples of posé in a sentence

  • The dance opens with a développé posé fondu in arabesque followed by a step back.2005, Gay Morris, Moving Words: Re-Writing Dance, page 19:
  • A classical ballet syllabus has a similar structure, where steps are grouped together into sets such as posé, jeté, batterie etc.2016, Maratt Mythili Anoop, Varun Gulati, Scripting Dance in Contemporary India, page 165:

Origin of posé

Borrowed from French posé (“placed, posed”).

Questions about posé

What does posé mean?
Posé means held in position for a prolonged period.
How do you use posé in a sentence?
The dance opens with a développé posé fondu in arabesque followed by a step back.
What part of speech is posé?
Posé is an adjective.

Words near posé in the dictionary

  1. posy-sniffer
  2. posy-sniffers
  3. Posyet Bay
  4. posynomial
  5. posynomials
  6. posé
  7. pot
  8. pot ale
  9. pot au feu
  10. pot bellies
  11. pot belly

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