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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Origin of first position
First recorded in 1880–85
Words nearby first position
first officer, first papers, first peoples, first person, first point of aries, first position, first post, first principle, first quarter, first quartile, first reader
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