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
Ann Miller, ex-Scandals star, Hollywood danseuse, grabbed a revolver and blazed away into a tree outside her bedroom window.
From Time Magazine Archive
A concentration of Verdi's La Traviata, burlesqued; a pantomime in the Sultan's harem; the lovely figure of the danseuse were most volubly received.
From Time Magazine Archive
Margaret hates Karin Booth, the premiere danseuse, because she thinks Cyd should have the top ballerina's job.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had heard of a celebrated danseuse, a Madame Schall.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various
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
The donkey had two regular danseuses, but the cow had to content herself with the court librarian and the apothecary.
From St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1877 by Various
This same Lake of Como has long been known to be the paradise of danseuses and opera-singers; and I thought it possible you might have dramatised a little love-story to favour the illusion.
From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
