In ballet, describing a jump where the dancer's legs cross or beat together in the air.
From French battu, past participle of battre (to beat), directly adopted into English ballet terminology in the 18th century.
Battu is one of those French ballet terms that English completely adopted because, well, the French invented ballet vocabulary and we just accepted it—assemblé battu, entrechat battu, the beats are literally visible technique.
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