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
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
Gwen Verdon, danseuse distingu�e of the U.S. musical stage, is fetchingly exuberant as a taxi dancer seeking a wagon for her unhitched star.
From Time Magazine Archive
Principal actors are Adele, a danseuse, and two ne'er-do-well youths, always broke.
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
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
Do you like those danseuses better than you do me?
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
Have not artists, architects, musicians, singers, danseuses, all that is art, pleasure, poetry, enchantment, a large share of the gold shower that produces these wonders?
From A Cardinal Sin by Sue, Eugène
