pas seul
Americannoun
plural
pas seulsnoun
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
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 Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Priscilla screamed—squealed rather—in ecstasy over the telegram brought her at breakfast, threw the paper to Sandy and herself into a pas seul that fairly amazed Aunt Marion and scandalized the cat.
From A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by King, Charles
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
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