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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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
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
There are twelve coryphées who earn from $25 to $30 per week.
From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe
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
A representation of Christ holding a cross aloft was given, and winged angels were hovering here and there, much in the same manner as coryphées and lesser auxiliaries of the ballet.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 by Various
