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poussette

/puːˈsɛt/

Rhymes with -ɛt

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French

noun poussettes

A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance. But, now, the Bird of Paradise was seen to flutter down the middle; and the little bells began to bounce and jingle in poussette; and the Doctor's rosy face spun round and round, like an expressive peg-top highly varnished; and breathless Mr. Craggs began to doubt already, whether country dancing ha
A method of cheating in card games, whereby a player surreptitiously changes his or her stake after the cards are dealt.

verb poussettes · poussetting · poussetted

intransitive To waltz around each other, as two couples do in a contra dance. Came wet-shod alder from the wave, / Came yews, a dismal coterie; / Each pluck'd his one foot from the grave, / Poussetting with a sloe-tree: […]

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@misc{poussette_2026,
  title = {poussette},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/poussette},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}