Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Poussette \Pous*sette"\ (p[=oo]*s[e^]t"), n. [F., pushpin, fr.
   pousser to push. See {Push}.]
   A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.
   --Dickens.

Poussette \Pous*sette"\, v. i.
   To perform a certain movement in a dance. [R.] --Tennyson.

         Down the middle, up again, poussette, and cross. --J. &
                                                  H. Smith.