Poussetteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /puːˈsɛt/
• 韻: -ɛt

名詞

poussette (複数形 poussettes)

1. A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.
   • 1846, Charles Dickens, The Battle of Life

     But, now, the Bird of Paradise was seen to flutter down the middle; and the little bells began to bounce and jingle in poussette; and the Doctor's rosy face spun round and round, like an expressive peg-top highly varnished; and breathless Mr. Craggs began to doubt already, whether country dancing had been made 'too easy,' like the rest of life; and Mr. Snitchey, with his nimble cuts and capers, footed it for Self and Craggs, and half-a-dozen more.

2. (card games) A method of cheating in card games, whereby a player surreptitiously changes his or her stake after the cards are dealt.

動詞

poussette (三人称単数 現在形 poussettes, 現在分詞 poussetting, 過去形および過去分詞形 poussetted)

1. (intransitive) To waltz around each other, as two couples do in a contra dance.
   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Amphion”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 1008064829, page 167:

     Came wet-shod alder from the wave, / Came yews, a dismal coterie; / Each pluck'd his one foot from the grave, / Poussetting with a sloe-tree: […]