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first position

noun Ballet.

a position of the feet in which the heels are back to back and the toes point out to the sides.

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Nearby words

  1. first officer,
  2. first papers,
  3. first peoples,
  4. first person,
  5. first point of aries,
  6. first post,
  7. first principle,
  8. first quarter,
  9. first quartile,
  10. first reader

Origin of first position

First recorded in 1880–85
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