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

And there is a very proper belief that one Gwen Verdon is the equal of a hand-picked chorus line, a spotlighted siren, a surefire comic, and a sought-after premi�re danseuse.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though a danseuse noble, she keeps on studying with the enthusiasm of a tyro.

From Time Magazine Archive

Harriet Hoctor, one of the few musi- comedy dancers who is still billed as premiere danseuse, justifies the title by leading the chorus, all attired in crimson riding habits, through a maze of green hurdles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Look, that languishing lady there is our premi�re danseuse, does she not look something like one of the moon's rays that had been left behind?

From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von