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
Gwen Verdon, danseuse distingu�e of the U.S. musical stage, is fetchingly exuberant as a taxi dancer seeking a wagon for her unhitched star.
From Time Magazine Archive
Principal actors are Adele, a danseuse, and two ne'er-do-well youths, always broke.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were loud in praise of Catherine Littlefield who directs the troupe, plans its choreography, serves as its premiere danseuse.
From Time Magazine Archive
He bought the picture, and ceaselessly employed me to make sketches of her in some way or another—as a queen—as a boy—as a danseuse.
From Love's Usuries by Creswicke, Louis
