tombé

[ tom-bey; French tawn-bey ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Ballet.

, plural tom·bés [tom-, beyz, taw, n, -, bey].

a step in which a dancer falls from one leg to the other, landing with all the weight on the foot that has just moved, while flexing the knee.

Origin of tombé¹

< French: fallen, past participle of tomber to fall

Once in a while the answer changed to, "Mort sur le champ d'honneur," or a brief "Tombé."

Sir Gaeton de l'Arc-Tombé sat tall and straight in his saddle, his visor up, his blue eyes narrowed against the glare of the sun.

He could hear the beating of the tombé while yet out of sight of the sentinel on the western wall of the terrace.

"Ainsi je suis bien tombé, general," said I, punning upon my accident.

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