Also means
flicker, flutter
Usage Note
Battement covers a heartbeat (battement de coeur), the beat of wings, and in ballet a leg movement where one foot beats against or passes the other. The plural battements is common in choreographic vocabulary. It derives from the verb battre (to beat).
Examples
"Elle sentait les battements de son coeur."
Natural Translation
She could feel her heartbeats.
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