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Answer for the clue "Dancer's glide ", 6 letters:
chasse

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Word definitions for chasse in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (alternative spelling of chassé English) 2 A chasse-café. vb. (alternative spelling of chassé English)

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. (ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading [syn: sashay ] v. perform a chasse step, in ballet [syn: sashay ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chasse \Chas`se"\, n. [F., fr. chass['e], p. p. of chasser to chase.] A movement in dancing, as across or to the right or left.

Usage examples of chasse.

Boldly I performed the chasse en avant and chasse en arriere glissade, until, when it came to my turn to move towards her and I, with a comic gesture, showed her the poor glove with its crumpled fingers, she laughed heartily, and seemed to move her tiny feet more enchantingly than ever over the parquetted floor.

Rue de Belle Chasse, and the Elgars found a suitable dwelling in the same street.

Jacques, son fils, septieme du nom, et deuxieme en Angleterre, fut chasse de ses trois royaumes.

Lessingham's quarters were in Rue de Belle Chasse, and the Elgars found a suitable dwelling in the same street.

The roll-call verified the presence of two hundred and twenty Representatives, whose names were as follows:-- Le Duc de Luynes, d'Andigne de la Chasse, Antony Thouret, Arene, Audren de Kerdrel (Ille-et-Vilaine), Audren de Kerdrel (Morbihan), de Balzac, Barchou de Penhoen, Barillon, O.

After a choreographic discussion -- pas battus, entrechats, and brisés dessus-dessous-- the wicked old gardener agrees, exits left, and the young man scares away -- pas chassé, and glissades in all directions -- all the birds, the last being a particularly impudent blackbird -- tours en l'air.

They were deep in Laagi territory, and the alien alert posts would have already picked up the burst of energy not only from their initial transmit from Picket Nine, which had been precalculated by the com-ship there over the hours since La Chasse Gallerie had been discovered-and which consequently had been able to send them with some accuracy half the distance to her-but from the succeeding jumps that had brought them light-years deep into Laagi territory.

That was one of the reasons the new mind-units were evolved out of solid-state physics instead of following up the development of the older, semianimate brains such as the one aboard the ancient La Chasse Gailerie.