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

Though a danseuse noble, she keeps on studying with the enthusiasm of a tyro.

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

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 brunette was Bluette, who played the soubrette rôles at the Odéon; the blonde was Céline Gamelle, the new première danseuse.

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida