danseuse
noun
a female ballet dancer.
danseuses
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pluralof danseuse.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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If the Koch contained these two danseuses instead of those seated pairs of women, you feel their energy would raise the roof.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2016
You can imagine what the drag danseuses of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo could make of these glamorous Russians.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2010
The two danseuses nobles profess the deepest friendship, ever since the day in 1928 when Diaghilev introduced 14-year-old Alice, a promising member of the corps de ballet, to 24-year-old Danilova, the prima ballerina.
From Time Magazine Archive
Furies trip measures and strike attitudes in pink tights and draperies of unæsthetic hues, when not engaged in witnessing, with qualified interest, incidental dances by two premières danseuses.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 15, 1890 by Various
The graceful danseuses who interpreted Mendelssohn's "Spring Song," Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony, and Shakespeare's "Tempest" were the pioneers of a vast movement.
From The Patient Observer And His Friends by Simeon Strunsky
