premiere danseuse

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In Manhattan last week General Manager Guilio Gatti-Casazza announced plans for the Metropolitan Opera's coming season, married Rosina Galli, his première danseuse, and sailed for Europe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lola's début as a première danseuse was made on March 30, 1844.

From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Wyndham, Horace

And then came Monticelli, the première danseuse, in a coat and skirt, and then some of her rivals.

From Sacred and Profane Love by Bennett, Arnold

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

The première danseuse knows precisely what a gentleman means when he twirls round forty-seven times on one leg, and then stands on his head. 

From Diary of a Pilgrimage by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)