The balance or goose-step introduced for their practice excites a fever of disgust.
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Goose-step
Synonyms for "goose-step" (7 found)
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24 translations across 14 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- патешко ходене noun (a style of marching)
- ходя по патешки verb (to march with a goose-step)
Catalan
1 entries- pas de l'oca noun (a style of marching)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 正步 noun (a style of marching)
- 正步 verb (to march with a goose-step)
Danish
2 entries- strækmarch noun (a style of marching)
- gå i strækmarch verb (to march with a goose-step)
Dutch
1 entries- ganzenpas noun (a style of marching)
Finnish
2 entries- hanhenmarssi noun (a style of marching)
- marssia hanhenmarssia verb (to march with a goose-step)
French
1 entries- pas de l’oie noun (a style of marching)
German
2 entries- Stechschritt noun (a style of marching)
- im Stechschritt marschieren verb (to march with a goose-step)
Greek
1 entries- βήμα της χήνας noun (a style of marching)
Italian
1 entries- passo dell'oca noun (a style of marching)
Japanese
1 entries- ガチョウ足行進 noun (a style of marching)
Māori
4 entries- hīkoi hōkaikai noun (a style of marching)
- hōkaikai noun (a style of marching)
- hīkoi hōkaikai verb (to march with a goose-step)
- hōkaikai verb (to march with a goose-step)
Norwegian
2 entries- hanemarsj noun (a style of marching)
- gå i hanemarsj verb (to march with a goose-step)
Turkish
2 entries- kaz adımı noun (a style of marching)
- kaz adımı yürümek verb (to march with a goose-step)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
A military parade is really a kind of ritual dance, something like a ballet, expressing a certain philosophy of life. The goose-step, for instance, is one of the most horrible sights in the world, far more terrifying than a dive-bomber. It is simply an affirmation of naked power; contained in it, quite consciously and intentionally, is the vision of a boot crashing down on a face. Its ugliness is part of its essence... Why is the goose-step not used in England? There are, heaven knows, plenty of army officers who would be only too glad to introduce some such thing. It is not used because the people in the street would laugh.
Source: wiktionary
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