coupee

French coupée, past participle of couper (“to cut”). Compare coupé, coopee.

coupee (plural coupees)

1. A motion in dancing, when one leg is a little bent and raised from the floor, and with the other a forward motion is made.
   • 1673, William Wycherley, The Gentleman Dancing-Master:

     One, two, and a coupee.

• “coupee”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.