Battement
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Battement is a noun meaning (ballet) A ballet move involving a beating action with an extended leg.
Meaning
(ballet) A ballet move involving a beating action with an extended leg.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) A thumping or beating sensation
Example Sentences
Ernst and Watson are superb dancers--extraordinarily agile and acrobatic, and their unison spins, battements, and body lines showed a split-second timing.
Secondly, though there is an audible vertigo, as is known by the battement, or undulations of sound in the ears, which many vertiginous people experience[…].
[…] he raised slowly his rounded arms, stretched them gracefully backward and forward, moved his feet with precision and lightness, took a few small steps, made some battements and pirouettes, and disappeared like a butterfly.
Word Forms
- battements
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include batterie, beat, ballotade, eggbeater, backbeat, arabesque.
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