Meaning of battement | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A ballet move involving a beating action with an extended leg
2. A thumping or beating sensation
   obsolete

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Examples

“[…] he raised slowly his rounded arms, stretched them gracefully backward and forward⟳, moved his feet with precision and lightness, took a few small steps, made some battements and pirouettes, and disappeared like⟳ a butterfly.”

“Ernst and Watson are superb dancers--extraordinarily agile and acrobatic, and their unison spins, battements, and body lines showed a split-second timing.”

“Secondly, though there is an audible vertigo, as is known by the battement, or undulations of sound⟳ in the ears, which many vertiginous people experience⟳[…].”

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