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
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
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
I wish she were a danseuse, an actress, a fleuriste—anything one could make his own introduction to.
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
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
I have seen some of the best danseuses in Europe and India—on and off the stage—and not one worthy to be named with her.
From A Modern Buccaneer by Rolf Boldrewood
He may admire the danseuses in a chauderie, as he breathes the odors of an Indian root.
From Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac
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