pous|sette

pous|sette
pous|sette «poo SEHT», noun, verb, -set|ted, -set|ting.
–n.
a dancing round and round with hands joined, as of a couple in a country-dance.
–v.i.
to dance in this way: »

The turf-cutter seized old Olly Dowden, and…poussetted with her (Thomas Hardy).

[< French poussette (literally) little push < Middle French pousse a push < Old French pousser to push < Latin pulsāre]

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