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
During the summers she has been premiere danseuse and ballet mistress at Louis Eckstein's Ravinia Opera; in the winters a solo dancer at Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Principal actors are Adele, a danseuse, and two ne'er-do-well youths, always broke.
From Time Magazine Archive
During dinner, there is entertainment, with dancers dressed up like leopards and a premiere danseuse performing on the head and shoulders of a bull.
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 motion greatly resembles those of danseuses playing the castanets.
Do you like those danseuses better than you do me?
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
