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mas⋅sé

[ma-sey or, especially Brit., mas-ee]
–noun Billiards.
a stroke made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held almost or quite perpendicular to the table.
Also called massé shot.


Origin:
1870–75; < F: lit., hammered, i.e., struck from above, straight down, equiv. to masse sledge hammer (OF mace; see mace 1 ) + -ee
mas·sé   (mā-sā')   
n.  A stroke in billiards made by striking the cue ball off center with the cue held nearly vertically, so that the cue ball moves in a curve around one ball before hitting another ball.

[French, from past participle of masser, to make a massé shot, from masse, mace (an early form of billiard cue), from Old French, club; see mace1.]
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