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ballerina

[bal-uh-ree-nuh] / ˌbæl əˈri nə /
NOUN
prima ballerina
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A dancer who became Britain's first black professional ballerina has had her pointed shoes restored on the television programme, The Repair Shop.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

The story is completely absurd, filled with plot holes and characters as thin as a prima ballerina.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

Thousands of people waiting in a rainy Piazza del Duomo cheered as torchbearer Nicoletta Manni, an Italian ballerina, carried it into the square, over an hour behind schedule.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

The writer Jia Tolentino characterized it as “what a ballerina might do if you concussed her and then made her snort caffeine pills.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 11, 2025

The French critic Théophile Gautier wrote the great ballet Giselle and then fell deeply in love with its star ballerina.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day




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