premiere danseuse
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In Manhattan last week General Manager Guilio Gatti-Casazza announced plans for the Metropolitan Opera's coming season, married Rosina Galli, his première danseuse, and sailed for Europe.
From Time Magazine Archive
She reminded me simultaneously, as she descended, of a mystic Russian première danseuse, a barefooted native swinging down his cocoanut grove, and High Diddle Dumpling my son John.
From Life's Minor Collisions by Warner, Frances Lester
And he pirouetted gaily like a première danseuse.
From Memories of a Musical Life by Mason, William
And then came Monticelli, the première danseuse, in a coat and skirt, and then some of her rivals.
From Sacred and Profane Love by Bennett, Arnold
There was another dancer there, an old grenadier of a woman who had been famous in her time as a première danseuse at the opera.
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
