danseuse
Example Sentences
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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
Though a danseuse noble, she keeps on studying with the enthusiasm of a tyro.
From Time Magazine Archive
Margaret hates Karin Booth, the premiere danseuse, because she thinks Cyd should have the top ballerina's job.
From Time Magazine Archive
More amusing was the scene wherein a chorus director was driven to distraction by a particularly inept performer who subsequently advertised herself as a "well trained, highly musical danseuse, accidentally still disengaged."
From Time Magazine Archive
Very short life and a merry one has the premi�re danseuse in this Opera.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 31, 1890 by Various
