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Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Terminology Tuesday Descendant



Terminology Tuesday Descendant

The term en descendant [ahn day-sahn-DAHN] means coming down. No big surprise here. It’s like a descendant tree in genealogy that traces the family line downwards to the present.

En descendant is a term of the French school of ballet and it means that the working leg passes from back to front. Thus the dancer moves in a downstage or forward direction.

From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Terminology Secret #45:
“En descendant means coming down.”

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“No matter who our ancestors are, our own personal and monumental task is to become the best person that we can possibly be - someone in whom our own descendants in times to come can take great pride and find inspiration.”
― Laurence Overmire, Digging for Ancestral Gold: The Fun and Easy Way to Get Started on Your Genealogy Quest

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