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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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
Cynthia, notwithstanding that spirited pas seul, was rather pale when Medenham stopped the car close beside her.
From Cynthia's Chauffeur by Louis Tracy
Fancying this prank not to have been without success, she next performed an improvised pas seul illustrative of the text, “The mountains shall skip like little lambs!”
From Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell
Nevertheless, I could have danced a pas seul.
From The Four Corners of the World by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
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