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
He turn'd his face unto the stock, And sound he fell asleep; She turn'd her face unto the wa',115 And saut tears she did weep.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
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
"Oft have I by thy cradle sitten, And fondly seen thee sleip;150 Bot now I gae about thy grave, The saut tears for to weip."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
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