balletomane
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of balletomane
1925–30; back formation from balletomania; see ballet, -o- ( def. ), -mania ( def. )
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One definition of a balletomane is someone who cares more about dancers than about choreography, to or beyond the point of madness.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2017
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
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
Exact, machine-like execution has made the Rockettes known wherever U. S. precision dancing is known and many a strict balletomane takes the organization seriously.
From Time Magazine Archive
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