Also chassez, chassey. [parts of the F. verb chasser (in same sense), esp. the imperative chassez as a direction.]
1. Dancing. To execute the step or movement called a chassé.
1803. T. G. Fessenden (‘C. Caustic’), Poet. Petit. agst. Galvanising Trumpery., I. (ed. 2), 37. And made them rigadoon and chassée.
1826. Disraeli, Viv. Grey (1868), 364. A husband chassezing forward to murder his wife.
1865. Sat. Rev., 11 Nov., 614. Lighting upon one toe at the Twickenham letter-office, turning on it while exchanging bags, and chasséing back to town.
1880. Ball-room Compan. (Routledge), 74. Pass left foot behind right, and chassez forward with it.
1884. C. H. Farnham, in Harper’s Mag., Feb., 406/1. She pirouetted and chasseyed at the changes of the tune.
2. trans. To dismiss. (Society slang.)
1847. Thackeray, Lords & Liv., III. He was chasséd on the spot.
1868. E. Yates, Rock Ahead, I. vi. 257 (Hoppe). If indeed the turf were not abandoned, and the ‘confederate’ chasséd.
