balletomane
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Origin of balletomane
1925–30; back formation from balletomania; see ballet, -o- ( def. ), -mania ( def. )
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Neither is a balletomane, and, though they’re clearly fascinated by the dancers’ single-mindedness and the extremity of their daily exertions, they treat the Bolshoi mainly as a battleground of wills.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2015
A pioneer of assemblage art, collector, autodidact, Christian Scientist, pastry-lover, experimental film-maker, balletomane and self-declared white magician, he roved freely through the fields of the mind while inhabiting a personal life of extraordinarily narrow limits.
From The Guardian • Jul. 25, 2015
In the 1970s, there was a Royal Opera House balletomane who would painstakingly prepare individual nosegays.
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2014
Keynes was a balletomane, collector and intimate of Virginia Woolf, but he took up a calling that he once compared with dentistry.
From BusinessWeek • Sep. 13, 2011
Six years ago, many a U. S. citizen who is now a self-conscious balletomane could not tell a chass� from a shag.
From Time Magazine Archive
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