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

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

Gwen Verdon, danseuse distinguee of the U.S. musical stage, is fetchingly exuberant as a taxi dancer searching for a wagon for her unhitched star.

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