Crossword clues for sashay
sashay
- Move nonchalantly
- Square-dance figure
- Flounce in a showy way
- Walk down the runway
- Square-dancing move
- Strut showily
- Strut one's stuff
- Square-dancing figure
- Walk with style
- Walk with a swing of the hips and shoulders
- Walk stylishly
- Walk showily
- Walk jauntily
- Walk in a showy way
- Walk confidently
- Walk alluringly
- Strut ostentatiously
- Strut on a runway
- Strut down the runway
- Stride affectedly
- Square dancing move
- Show swagger
- Runway-walker's walk
- Runway model stroll
- Proceed down the runway, perhaps
- Engage in model behavior?
- Emulate a runway model
- Amble with an attitude
- Fancy dance movement
- Square dance move
- Move down the runway
- Walk fancily
- Proceed nonchalantly
- Walk nonchalantly
- Walk with flair
- Saunter with style
- Strut one's stuff, say
- Walk ostentatiously
- A square dance figure
- Partners circle each other taking sideways steps
- (ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading
- A journey taken for pleasure
- Glide nonchalantly
- Alteration of 40 Down
- Strut about
- Perform a step in a barn dance
- Square-dance caller's command
- Traipse
- Way of moving packet over the radio
- Prance around, always following band
- Walk casually
- Walk with a swagger
- Move easily
- Walk with attitude
- Walk easily
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1836, mangled Englishing of French chassé "gliding step" (in square dancing), literally "chased," past participle of chasser "to chase," from Old French chacier "to hunt," from Vulgar Latin *captiare (see capable, and compare chase, catch). Related: Sashayed; sashaying. The noun is attested from 1900.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A chassé. 2 A sequence of sideways steps in a circle in square dancing. vb. (context intransitive English) To walk casually or showily; to strut, swagger or flounce.
WordNet
n. a square dance figure; partners circle each other taking sideways steps
(ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading [syn: chasse]
a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field" [syn: excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition]
v. move sideways [syn: sidle]
to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house" [syn: swagger, ruffle, prance, strut, cock]
perform a chasse step, in ballet [syn: chasse]
Usage examples of "sashay".
I walked out with your bedsheet and sashayed off to find Acer Laidlaw.
His 180-ton rig rose thirty cents off the deck, slid out of its bay, and sashayed down the ramp, waving its empennage like a slightly tipsy iron dinosaur.
She closed the door and sashayed up to the porch, where Khal stood waiting for her.
That syncopated dance back to the Reference Deskelaborate, contrary motioncalled on me to make a deliberate, irrevocable sashay.
Maris had all that many chances to sashay along the shopping aisles of Fourteen as if she were a toppie herself, somebody who belonged there.
I was in Nineteen-hundred and Thirty-one, sashaying into the wedding-cake lobby of the Hotel Arapahoe with beautiful Sarah Wyatt, the Yankee clock heiress, on my arm.
She liked sashaying around in her sexy workout togs and thong bikinis.
German merchant ships that would sashay around neutral waters in a trollopy way enticing allied warships to get too close then flipping back their sides to reveal dangerous guns.
With that she sashayed on ahead of him, giving him the full effect of swaying hips and kick-ass attitude.
She sashayed away from him, her voluptuous body outlined in the tight breeches and tunic.
He lifted her once and actually set her there, but she bounded back down and sashayed to the sofa with her tail in the air.
She sashayed past me and walked casually down another dark aisle, humming to herself.
She had sashayed up to him and requested a match to light her cigarette.
The Hula Man was, incredibly, sashaying across the hall carpet, the grotesque spectacle of his creakily undulating hips clearing its own wide path.
Prey is tracked by scent, and a hunting dragon lumbers and sashays, head down, its forked tongue flicking over the ground for chemical traces.