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
During dinner, there is entertainment, with dancers dressed up like leopards and a premiere danseuse performing on the head and shoulders of a bull.
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
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
It was the picture of a danseuse who had been quite famous some years before.
From Waldfried A Novel by Berthold Auerbach
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
He listened to the music, looked at the danseuses through his opera-glass, and drank a glass of punch between the acts.
From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Gustave Flaubert
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
