coryphee

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It would fill the tent in old Noo York, but it’s n. g. in this here country, where everybody’s either a coryphee or a clown or a pantaloon!

From The Maids of Paradise by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

They were suspended by a ribbon that had once done duty in the costume of a coryphee; they rose and fell to the young man's gentle breathing.

From The Auction Block by Beach, Rex Ellingwood