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
"I am gaing awa, Jeanie, I am gaing awa, I am gaing ayont the saut seas, I'm gaing sae far awa."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
First, "le saut périlleux"—the somersault backwards—over and over again, at intervals of two or three minutes, so as to give himself time for thought and chuckles, while he smoked his pipe in silent stodgy jubilation.
From The Martian by George Du Maurier
Ye have got your daughter back again, but no before she has cost ye mony a sad heart and mony a saut tear; and that was some revenge.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various
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