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OP The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
pesade
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SYLLABICATION:
pe·sade
PRONUNCIATION:
p-sd, -zäd
NOUN:
The act or position of a horse when rearing on its hind legs with its forelegs in
the air.
ETYMOLOGY:
French, alteration (influenced by peser, to weigh) of obsolete posade, from
Old Italian posata, a pause, from posare, to pause, from Late Latin pausre.
See pose1.
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