coupee

See also: coupée

English

Etymology

French coupée, past participle of couper (“to cut”). Compare coupé, coopee.

Noun

coupee (plural coupees)

A motion in dancing, when one leg is a little bent and raised from the floor, and with the other a forward motion is made.
- 1673, William Wycherley, The Gentleman Dancing-Master:
  One, two, and a coupee.

References

coupee in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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