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
To the onetime Leonora Hughes, 27, famed danseuse, now Mrs. Carlos Ortiz Basualdo, a son; on Feb. 17, in her Argentine home, whence the fact has just been broadcast by mail.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Manhattan last week General Manager Guilio Gatti-Casazza announced plans for the Metropolitan Opera's coming season, married Rosina Galli, his première danseuse, and sailed for Europe.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ona Munson, famed "Manhattan Mary," Be^ Compton, still a strong danseuse, and Alice Boulden, recently emerged from a cavern along Broadway, provide all the feminine requisites of a good show.
From Time Magazine Archive
You have not the banal smile of the danseuse who takes her strength from her teeth.
From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton
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
He listened to the music, looked at the danseuses through his opera-glass, and drank a glass of punch between the acts.
From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Flaubert, Gustave
Do you like those danseuses better than you do me?
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
