Associations to the word «Battement»

Wiktionary

BATTEMENT, noun. (ballet) A ballet move involving a beating action with an extended leg
BATTEMENT, noun. (obsolete) A thumping or beating sensation

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope