bayadere
Americannoun
noun
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a dancing girl, esp one serving in a Hindu temple
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a fabric or design with horizontal stripes, esp of a bright colour
adjective
Etymology
Origin of bayadere
1855–60; < French: a professional female dancer of India < Portuguese bailadeira, feminine of bailador dancer ( baila ( r ) to dance ( see ball 2) + -dor < Latin -tor -tor ); apparently in reference to the fabrics worn by such dancers
Example Sentences
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It is the bayadere dance, for the glory of Brahma!
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller
After Marsyas, the bayadere bounded, as if pitched from the front of the wave.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller
In their childhood he had drawn for her amusement Spanish galleons, the domes of Mogul palaces, and a fantastic damsel, that he called a bayadere, languishing on a balcony.
From Sacrifice by Stephen French Whitman
"And she is more powerful than thou art," cried the enraged bayadere, accumulating insult on the head of Adsalis, "for she is the wife of Halil Patrona."
From Halil the Pedlar A Tale of Old Stambul by Mór Jókai
Therefore the bayadere, with her spinning pas seul and buzzing romore, who appears to the eater of the figs, is the magic top in person, her form being taken from the fig.
From Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series by Charles Godfrey Leland
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