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
Margaret hates Karin Booth, the premiere danseuse, because she thinks Cyd should have the top ballerina's job.
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
Principal actors are Adele, a danseuse, and two ne'er-do-well youths, always broke.
From Time Magazine Archive
She reminded me simultaneously, as she descended, of a mystic Russian première danseuse, a barefooted native swinging down his cocoanut grove, and High Diddle Dumpling my son John.
From Life's Minor Collisions by Warner, Frances Lester
