English
glissade
Glissade comes from French glissade ‘slip, slide, skid’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentglissade‘slip, slide, skid’
- Englishearliest quotation 1907same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentglissade‘slip, slide, skid’
- Englishearliest quotation 1907same form
Earliest quotation: 1907, Harold Bindloss, Toronto: “Flinging himself on hands and knees he dragged the…”
Every English word from French glissade
Today it means
noun A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French glissade / glissade