arabesque
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She fills the space with an array of battements and bourrées, chaîné turns and arabesques; at one point she skips up a spiral staircase like a happy child.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
In a beautiful pas de deux, Fumi Kaneko and William Bracewell do slow alternate penchée arabesques, placing their hands on the floor, like creatures from the natural world fulfilling a mysterious function.
From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2023
He gave Schrader’s “The Comfort of Strangers,” a 1990 drama about a young couple who encounter a mysterious Christopher Walken in Venice, an exotic score swelling from arabesques to full-blown opera.
From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2022
Their blades made a delicious crackling sound as they sliced into the ice, sinking into deep edges, gliding into graceful arabesques, moving impossibly quickly.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2022
They scrubbed him so much that the arabesques of his tattooing began to fade.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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