battement noun2 •A ballet move involving a beating action with an extended legErnst and Watson are superb dancers--extraordinarily agile and acrobatic, and their unison spins, battements, and body lines showed a split-second timing. — 1988 •(no longer used) A thumping or beating sensationSecondly, though there is an audible vertigo, as is known by the battement, or undulations of sound in the ears, which many vertiginous people experience[…]. — 1796 formsbattements
