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

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

During dinner, there is entertainment, with dancers dressed up like leopards and a premiere danseuse performing on the head and shoulders of a bull.

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

He acted like a premi�re danseuse when I passed the cooper's shop.'

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth