battement

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battement

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Borrowed from French battement (“beating, hitting”).

noun battements

A ballet move involving a beating action with an extended leg […] he raised slowly his rounded arms, stretched them gracefully backward and forward, moved his feet with precision and lightness, took a few small steps, made some battements and pirouettes, and disappeared like a butterfly.
obsolete A thumping or beating sensation Secondly, though there is an audible vertigo, as is known by the battement, or undulations of sound in the ears, which many vertiginous people experience[…].

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"battement." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/battement. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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"battement." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/battement.

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@misc{battement_2026,
  title = {battement},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/battement},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}