échappé

American  

[ey-sha-pey, ey-shap-ey, ey-sha-pey] / ˌeɪ ʃæˈpeɪ, eɪˈʃæp eɪ, eɪ ʃaˈpeɪ /

noun

• échappés
  plural

1. a ballet movement in which the dancer jumps from the fifth position and lands on the toes or the balls of the feet in the second position.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• échappés
  plural

Etymology

Origin of échappé

< French, past participle of échapper to escape

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

échappé échappés

The monotonous push and pull of the choreography grew tedious, as did the repetitive footwork that seemed to live by a rule: when in doubt, add an échappé.

From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2014

A few hours afterward the luckless échappé was safely lodged at the Conciergerie.

From Dumas' Paris by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

There was a strange sort of soulagement in the conviction that we had, as my neighbors say, "échappé bien."

From On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes by Mildred Aldrich

Founding his opinion largely on similar facts, Alexander von Humboldt applied the expression to the American nations that they are “des débris échappés à un naufrage commun.”

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton

That it covered the two Americas, in whatever continental form they may then have existed, leaving us there “les débris échappés à un naufrage commun.”

From Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs by William Gates