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pas seul

American  
[pah sœl] / pɑ ˈsœl /

noun

Ballet.
  • pas seuls
    plural
  1. a dance performed by one person; dance solo.


pas seul British  
/ pɑ sœl /

noun

  1. a dance sequence for one person

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of pas seul

1805–15; < French: literally, solo step


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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

On several occasions I have observed them perform a kind of dance, a pas seul, for each rotifer would be alone by itself.

From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by James Weir

Unless he were dancing a pas seul out of sheer lightness of heart, the nocturnal visitor must have tripped over something.

From The Girl on the Boat by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

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