saut
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“We always said Tess had the best saut de chat in the company,” Jonathan Stafford, City Ballet’s artistic director, said of the large leap.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
I'll away hame and hae a bannock and a saut herring to my denner by way o' auld style.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2013
My luve she sits her palfrey white, Mair fair to see than makar's dream O' faery queen on moonbeam bricht, Or mermaid on the saut sea faem.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles
Both you and me hae much to do that maun be done, before we see saut water, without losing time in grumblin’ at what canna be helped.
From Janet's Love and Service by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
And the heroic sailor was right, for "He hadna gone a step, a step, A step but only ane, When a bout flew out o' our goodly ship, And the saut sea it came in."
From Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
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