Giselle
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(italics) a ballet (1841) choreographed by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, with musical score by Adolphe Adam.
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Also Gisele. a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
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Vanguard identified three other vessels targeted on Tuesday as the Singapore-flagged GFS Giselle, the Marshall Islands-flagged Al Saadiyat and the Barbados-flagged Alfonso.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
At the Los Angeles Ballet Center, I witnessed the dancers not as the titular Nutcracker or Giselle, or any of the other roles they perform, but instead as themselves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
This new species is named for Martina Giselle Ramirez, dean of the College of Science at California State University, Stanislaus and formerly dean of natural sciences and biology professor at St. Norbert College.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
It started last Sunday, when a video posted to X showed 18-year-old Camryn Giselle Booker confronting a group of her classmates at Texas Tech University as they were holding a vigil for Kirk on campus.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2025
Maybe perform in productions of Giselle or Coppelia or Don Quixote.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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