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

More amusing was the scene wherein a chorus director was driven to distraction by a particularly inept performer who subsequently advertised herself as a "well trained, highly musical danseuse, accidentally still disengaged."

From Time Magazine Archive

They were loud in praise of Catherine Littlefield who directs the troupe, plans its choreography, serves as its premiere danseuse.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rosina Galli, 44, dainty onetime premiere danseuse at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, wife of fat Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza; of bronchopneumonia; in Milan.

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