avalement

From French avalement, from avaler.

avalement (usually uncountable, plural avalements)

1. (skiing) A technique of flexing the knees while skiing.
   • 1995, Martin Heckelman, The New Guide to Skiing, page 109:

     On the same slope, choose a steeper traverse track on a short mogul field that passes over a series of small moguls, and repeat the avalement movements.

• velamenta

From avaler (“to swallow”) +‎ -ment.

• IPA^(key): /a.val.mɑ̃/

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avalement m (plural avalements)

1. (dated) descent; lowering
2. act of swallowing
3. (skiing) avalement

• “avalement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.