pas seul
Americannoun
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pas seuls
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of pas seul
1805–15; < French: literally, solo step
Example Sentences
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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
Though Marina Yurlova now dances for her suppers on the concert stage she once did a more dangerous pas seul.
From Time Magazine Archive
Therefore the bayadere, with her spinning pas seul and buzzing romore, who appears to the eater of the figs, is the magic top in person, her form being taken from the fig.
From Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series by Charles Godfrey Leland
Bob laughed, after a pas seul in a narrow and most inconvenient spot.
From The Dual Alliance by Marjorie Benton Cooke
Sooth to say, my 'sooty friend' does perform many a pas seul there; but as I seldom put my hand in, I don't disturb him.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Edmund Downey
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