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

Inflected Forms

noun

• échappés
  plural

Etymology

Origin of échappé

< French, past participle of échapper to escape

Example Sentences

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

Je tiens infiniment à recueillir tout ce qui a échappé à ce grand coeur et à cette vaillante plume, et je commence un travail qui ne sera sans doute complet que dans quelques années.

From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Laughton, John Knox

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

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

C'étoit un Servien échappé du bagne de Constantinople où il étoit prisonnier: il parut, pour la première fois, en habit de hussard à la cour.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

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 Aldrich, Mildred