danseuse
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The biggest casualty was Edgar Degas’ bronze sculpture of a teenage ballerina, “Petite danseuse de quatorze ans,” estimated to bring as much as $35 million.
From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 2, 2011
A concentration of Verdi's La Traviata, burlesqued; a pantomime in the Sultan's harem; the lovely figure of the danseuse were most volubly received.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ann Miller, ex-Scandals star, Hollywood danseuse, grabbed a revolver and blazed away into a tree outside her bedroom window.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were loud in praise of Catherine Littlefield who directs the troupe, plans its choreography, serves as its premiere danseuse.
From Time Magazine Archive
One was connected with an estate, in the province of Settsu, conferred by Go-Toba on a favourite—a shirabyoshi, "white measure-marker," as a danseuse of those days was called.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
If the Koch contained these two danseuses instead of those seated pairs of women, you feel their energy would raise the roof.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2016
You can imagine what the drag danseuses of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo could make of these glamorous Russians.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2010
The two danseuses nobles profess the deepest friendship, ever since the day in 1928 when Diaghilev introduced 14-year-old Alice, a promising member of the corps de ballet, to 24-year-old Danilova, the prima ballerina.
From Time Magazine Archive
The donkey had two regular danseuses, but the cow had to content herself with the court librarian and the apothecary.
From St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1877 by Various
This same Lake of Como has long been known to be the paradise of danseuses and opera-singers; and I thought it possible you might have dramatised a little love-story to favour the illusion.
From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
