pointe
Americannoun
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pointes
plural
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the tip of the toe.
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a position on the extreme tips of the toes.
idioms
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of pointe
1820–30; < French: pointe ( du pied ) “tiptoe,” literally, “extremity of the foot”
Example Sentences
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Edeline Lee put on a striking show in London - complete with models taking to the runway en pointe in a transformed school sports hall.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
At 77, Yoko Morishita is still en pointe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
She didn’t have a preferred brand of pointe shoes or a favorite costume: “Never gave it a thought. You wear this, period.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
The shimmering and pellucid choreographic poem presents its central woman as if arriving on a breeze by way of skimming steps on pointe and ultimately exiting as breezily as she arrived.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
Despite her lack of proper pointe shoes, Cassiopeia rose effortlessly to her toes out of sheer terror.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Boone scored eight pointes early in the second half as the Cowboys put together a 10-3 run to build a 14-point lead, 50-36 with 10:32 remaining.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
Johnson may be old, slow and worn down, but he is never sur les pointes.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2011
Their ten-month-old daughter Maria, Youskevitch says, "stays on her pointes very good."
From Time Magazine Archive
She swirled in flamencos, glided through a waltz, and in the purple breeches of a matador climaxed a gymnastic bullfight on pointes as delicately as a Russian ballerina.
From Time Magazine Archive
Also the pointes and partes of all Divinitie that is of the revealed will and words of God, and declared by their severall Definitions and Divisions in order as followeth.
From The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut by Maria Louise Greene
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