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arabesque

[ar-uh-besk] / ˌær əˈbɛsk /




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The setups were delightful and there was also the style, with all its arabesque flourishes and attention to ornate detail.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ruble perfected her movements in sync with the music and the other dancers, her head tilted at just the right angle, her arabesque hitting the correct line, her discipline and note-taking clearly paying off.

From Los Angeles Times

The lines curl into dense molars and concise arabesques, like visual mantras, repeated to form airy mandalas.

From New York Times

This meditative adagio is the work’s longest movement, and Olafsson stretched its darkling arabesques to more than 10 minutes.

From New York Times

This was classic couture — in sandstone tulle, sky-like lilac, blush cloud pink and dappled pastels — with arabesque motifs on golden foliage.

From Seattle Times