coryphée
noun
a member of a ballet company who dances usually as part of a small group and who ranks below the soloists.
coryphées
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pluralof coryphée.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He dined in high places and afterwards supped at the Savoy with the coryphées; and both in the high places and among the coryphées his jewels had made him welcome.
From The Broken Road by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
But these modern coryphées of Rieka and Dalmatia are so forgetful.
From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 by Henry Baerlein
In the sixteenth century the winged angels have often a degenerate similitude to tightly laced coryphées, who balance themselves upon their wheels as if they were performing a vaudeville turn.
From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
Finally, preceded by clouds of gas, the Arch-Comedian in person, supported by spectacled coryphées in brass hats!
From All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay
But the coryphées that had danced there were migrating.
From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Edgar Saltus
