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
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
Rita De Leporte, the Metropolitan's premi�re danseuse, whipped together an able troupe of 100.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though a danseuse noble, she keeps on studying with the enthusiasm of a tyro.
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
