sashay

[sa-shey]

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verb (used without object) Informal.

to glide, move, or proceed easily or nonchalantly: She just sashayed in as if she owned the place.
to chassé in dancing.

Origin of sashay

1830–40, Americanism; metathetic variant of chassé

Can be confusedsachet sashay Sasha

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Related Words for sashay

flounce, glide, move, mince, strut, prance, swagger, excursion

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Contemporary Examples of sashay

The Drag Race host is set to sashay to the ABC comedy Happy Endings for a guest arc.
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And watch the backs of the heads of the aura vampires in your life getting tinier and tinier as they sashay away.
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Historical Examples of sashay

In them days they said 'promenade', 'sashay', 'swing corners', 'change partners'.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 2
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Get a move on them fried spuds and sashay them down this way, if there's any left when y'u fill your plate, Missou.
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William MacLeod Raine
"Hope I didn't put away too much fried chicken to sashay properly at the square dance," Bud remarked.
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Victor Appleton
In that sea and that wind the progress of the Dobson was, as the Cap'n mentally put it, a "sashay."
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British Dictionary definitions for sashay

sashay

verb (intr) informal

to move, walk, or glide along casually
to move or walk in a showy way; parade

Word Origin for sashay

C19: from an alteration of chassé, a gliding dance step

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Word Origin and History for sashay

1836, mangled Englishing of French chassé "gliding step" (in square dancing), literally "chased," past participle of chasser "to chase," from Old French chacier "to hunt," from Vulgar Latin *captiare (see capable, and cf. chase, catch). Related: Sashayed; sashaying. The noun is attested from 1900.