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

Principal actors are Adele, a danseuse, and two ne'er-do-well youths, always broke.

From Time Magazine Archive

And there is a very proper belief that one Gwen Verdon is the equal of a hand-picked chorus line, a spotlighted siren, a surefire comic, and a sought-after premi�re danseuse.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though a danseuse noble, she keeps on studying with the enthusiasm of a tyro.

From Time Magazine Archive

I wonder what the danseuse of to-day would think of the costume worn by her sister of the "sixties"?

From Life on the Stage by Morris, Clara