chassé
verbEtymology Borrowed from French chassé.
1
To perform this step.
2
Slang To dismiss.
- We believe that this sans-culotte Pillet or Pillard, Pendard or Fuyard, was so put to his shifts that the want of both might have chasséd him from decent society.1817, The Literary Gazette:
- Garrick soon found out this double dealing, and chasséd him promptly.1868, Percy Fitzgerald, The Life of David Garrick, page 32:
- Related terms
- sashay