pas seul
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of pas seul
1805–15; < French: literally, solo step
Example Sentences
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Though Marina Yurlova now dances for her suppers on the concert stage she once did a more dangerous pas seul.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lautrec immortalized Avril in numerous poses: as a Moulin Rouge spectator, in conventional garb leaving the cabaret, dancing a pas seul with her skirts flung high to reveal legs of startling thinness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Teresa, however, kept up a very animated pas seul for several minutes after the loss of her partner; but at length she also found herself compelled to stop.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various
“Grammar go hang,” said Judy, performing a dangerous pas seul on the gate post and then jumping lightly down and racing up the avenue to meet the incoming automobile.
From Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days by Speed, Nell
The troopers danced together in the fire-glare––clumsily, in their boots, with interims of the pas seul savouring of the capers of those ancient Mongol horsemen in the Hezars of Genghis Khan.
From The Crimson Tide A Novel by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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