chassé-croisé

名词 n.
英 /ˌʃæseɪk(ɹ)wæˈzeɪ/    美 /ʃæˌseɪk(ɹ)wæˈzeɪ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A figure between two partners, in which one chassés left then right, while the other chassés right then left.
  2. A situation in which things swap, shuffle, cross over or cross past each other in some way.; A role reversal. dated,figuratively
    — By a very singular chassé-croisé it is the English scheme which, for the “hissing-palatal” (English sh), proposes ç, and the German which recommends the sign ś, whereas the ś was first very generally used in English transliterations and the ç in Continental.
  3. A situation in which things swap, shuffle, cross over or cross past each other in some way.; Comings and goings; hustle and bustle. dated,figuratively

词形变化

chassés-croisés plural chassé-croisés plural

词源

Learned borrowing from French chassés-croisés. By surface analysis, chassés + croisés.
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