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sashay

[ sa-shey ]

verb (used without object)

, Informal.
  1. to glide, move, or proceed easily or nonchalantly:

    She just sashayed in as if she owned the place.

  2. to chassé in dancing.


sashay

/ sæˈʃeɪ /

verb

  1. to move, walk, or glide along casually
  2. to move or walk in a showy way; parade


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sashay1

1830–40, Americanism; metathetic variant of chassé ( def )

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Word History and Origins

Origin of sashay1

C19: from an alteration of chassé , a gliding dance step

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Example Sentences

The Drag Race host is set to sashay to the ABC comedy Happy Endings for a guest arc.

In this case, don a pair of pumps, slip into a dress, and sashay into a shiny new job.

And watch the backs of the heads of the aura vampires in your life getting tinier and tinier as they sashay away.

In that sea and that wind the progress of the Dobson was, as the Cap'n mentally put it, a "sashay."

But when he got up on his hind legs an' begin ter sashay thet settled it.

Who'll go 'long with me fur one farewell sashay with our own cannons?'

"Hope I didn't put away too much fried chicken to sashay properly at the square dance," Bud remarked.

In them days they said 'promenade', 'sashay', 'swing corners', 'change partners'.

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