Definitions for glissade

glissade glis·sade

Spelling: [gli-sahd, -seyd]
IPA: /glɪˈsɑd, -ˈseɪd/

Glissade is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 326 anagrams from letters in glissade (adegilss).

Definitions for glissade

noun

  1. a skillful glide over snow or ice in descending a mountain, as on skis or a toboggan.
  2. Dance. a sliding or gliding step.

verb (used without object)

  1. to perform a glissade.

Origin of glissade

1830-40; French, equivalent to gliss(er) to slip, slide + -ade -ade1

Examples for glissade

There is our resting-place, herr,” he said, “with a perfect bit of snow for a glissade.

It was in deep winter weather and Timur had to be let down the snows by glissade in a basket guided by ropes.

The first part of the way down to the saddle we attempted a glissade.

In Switzerland he had studied the glissade, but when one carries a heavy load to balance on a precipitous slope is difficult.

We crept up it, and from the summit descended by a glissade to the frontal portion of the cavern.

By means of ropes attached to these I proposed to scour the mountain along the line of the glissade.

It was pitch-dark outside, and the trench had become a glissade of slimy mud.

It is called the hashiri (glissade); and we are to descend at a run!

To shorten the return journey I was tempted to glissade down what appeared to be a snow-filled ravine, which was very steep.

The remaining steep slopes were also descended by glissade, and we afterwards marched cheerily over the gentler inclines.

Word Value for glissade
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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