mézair

• mezair

From French mezzair, later mézair, from Italian mezz'aria, from mezzo (“middle”) + aria (“air”) (because it was originally a movement at height halfway between terre-à-terre and curvet).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /meɪˈzɛː/

mézair (plural mézairs)

1. (horse riding) In manège, a movement comprising a series of levades with small steps between.
   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 28:

     With a mezair and a cut to the left and a pair of caprioles, Zelikman danced the horse through the tangle of men.

• mazier