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
Now when he came before the King, Fell low down on his knee; The King he turned round about, And the saut tear blinded his e’e.
From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank
"Guid kens," she went on in desperation, "that I wadna touch a grain o' saut wantin' leave."
From Alec Forbes of Howglen by MacDonald, George
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