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
Spinning out a series of steps, he recited, "Pass�, chass�, saut de basque, heel, toe."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Ye're rockin' fu' sweetly On mammie's warm knee, But daddie's a-rockin' Upon the saut sea.
From Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Ford, Robert
The parting time cam, an' the parting time past, An' it past nae without the saut tear, An' awa' to anither an' farre awa' land I gaed, an' I left my ain dear.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles
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