sashay
[sa-shey]
- to glide, move, or proceed easily or nonchalantly: She just sashayed in as if she owned the place.
- to chassé in dancing.
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Origin of sashay
1830–40, Americanism; metathetic variant of chassé
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Contemporary Examples
The Drag Race host is set to sashay to the ABC comedy Happy Endings for a guest arc.
In this case, don a pair of pumps, slip into a dress, and sashay into a shiny new job.
And watch the backs of the heads of the aura vampires in your life getting tinier and tinier as they sashay away.
Historical Examples
In them days they said 'promenade', 'sashay', 'swing corners', 'change partners'.
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.
Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor WestWilliam MacLeod Raine
"Hope I didn't put away too much fried chicken to sashay properly at the square dance," Bud remarked.
Tom Swift and the Electronic HydrolungVictor Appleton
In that sea and that wind the progress of the Dobson was, as the Cap'n mentally put it, a "sashay."
The Skipper and the SkippedHolman Day
sashay
- to move, walk, or glide along casually
- to move or walk in a showy way; parade
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Word Origin
C19: from an alteration of chassé, a gliding dance step
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Word Origin and History for sashay
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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.
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