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”
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The women’s legs and pointe work flash during solo moments and intermix with the moves of their male counterparts during intricate duets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
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
Andres made a deliberate choice for all the sisters to dance on pointe — except for Jo, a character who is unconventional in her tomboyishness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2024
Finally, as adults, they were getting the chance to wear the beautiful costume, don the pointe shoes and take center stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2024
My mind flashes back to that day I spent at the beginning of the school year, trying on pointe shoes in a dancewear shop in the U District.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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
A.B.C. is the triangle, whose iij. corners I count to be iij. pointes.
From The Path-Way to Knowledg Containing the First Principles of Geometrie by Robert Record
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