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
Instead, she tells a series of delicately interwoven stories: A danseuse, having lost confidence in herself, finds a man in her room who has come to steal her jewelry.
From Time Magazine Archive
To the onetime Leonora Hughes, 27, famed danseuse, now Mrs. Carlos Ortiz Basualdo, a son; on Feb. 17, in her Argentine home, whence the fact has just been broadcast by mail.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rosina Galli, 44, dainty onetime premiere danseuse at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, wife of fat Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza; of bronchopneumonia; in Milan.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Era and Morning Herald praised the new danseuse in what seem to us extravagant terms, and deliberately ignored the inglorious dénouement of her performance.
From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by Edmund B. d'Auvergne
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
It was she who conceived the celebrated "shawl dance" that was the rage throughout Europe for years thereafter, and that still is used, in very slightly modified form, by premieres danseuses.
From Superwomen by Albert Payson Terhune
Furies trip measures and strike attitudes in pink tights and draperies of unæsthetic hues, when not engaged in witnessing, with qualified interest, incidental dances by two premières danseuses.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 15, 1890 by Various
