seconde
Americannoun
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secondes
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of seconde
1680–90; < French, feminine of second second 1
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And Michael de la Nuez, while spinning in a pirouette à la seconde, suddenly sliced his free leg backward and forward.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
They did a double à la seconde turn, one leg whipping out to the side in the middle of each swift revolution, followed by a triple pirouette dropping into a split.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2017
And all of this is expressed in a pirouette à la seconde, a step which, to a dancer of McRae's accomplishment, can be dashed off almost without thought.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 26, 2010
Dejection sat upon his brow; he yawned over a clumsy feinte seconde, when his sinister eyes fell on a figure that had just entered the hall.
From The Strollers by Harrison Fisher
Wherefore I will here shewe such thinges as, in mye opynione, may seme to be touched, not medlinge withe the seconde editione to one inferior personne then my fathers editione was.
From Animaduersions uppon the annotacions and corrections of some imperfections of impressiones of Chaucer's workes 1865 edition by G. H. (George Henry) Kingsley
Bishops have a little turn, I observe, for marrying somebody who is somebody—specially en secondes noces, good men.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Lucas Malet
He married en secondes noces, the Archduchess Theresa of Austria.
From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount Esher
It was falsified in this case by the birth of a son to Phoebe, en secondes noces, many years later.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
"Voilà tes secondes noces!" she cried where she stood, and laughed by the side of the gray angry water, watching the tresses of the floating hair sink downward like a heap of sea-tossed weed.
From Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida
Miramon at one stage of the book's being, I find with real surprise, was married en secondes noces to Math.
From Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell
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