danseuse

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

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

Ona Munson, famed "Manhattan Mary," Be^ Compton, still a strong danseuse, and Alice Boulden, recently emerged from a cavern along Broadway, provide all the feminine requisites of a good show.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The pit whistled and clapped in merry impatience for the appearance of the danseuse.

From Superwomen by Albert Payson Terhune

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

The reign of Louis XVIII. was also emphatically the reign of the danseuses.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various

This same Lake of Como has long been known to be the paradise of danseuses and opera-singers; and I thought it possible you might have dramatised a little love-story to favour the illusion.

From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever