ballet slipper

American  

noun

1. a heelless cloth or leather slipper worn by ballet dancers.

2. a woman's shoe similar in form.

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Example Sentences

Claude once swallowed a child’s ballet slipper that fell into his enclosure — he was placed under anesthesia to have it removed — but spent much of his time in the near-total stillness typical of an ambush predator.

From Los Angeles Times

Attached just so, winding up the ankle like a vine, tied expertly on the inside of the leg — to me, nothing completed a ballet slipper like a ribbon.

From Los Angeles Times

Just then a pink ballet slipper came flying through the air.

From Literature

It is described as a floribunda which produces masses of white blooms with a subtle "ballet slipper pink" centre.

From BBC

Walk up the stairs past the stone lions, through the marble entrance court and into the ornate Gottesman Hall, and you can peer into dramatically lit cases holding medieval illuminated manuscripts, a ballet slipper designed by Coco Chanel, the stuffed toys that inspired “Winnie-the-Pooh” and Virginia Woolf’s walking stick, among other prized items.

From New York Times