fouetté
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of fouetté
1820–30; < French, past participle of fouetter to whip
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Whirling through her whipping fouetté turns as the predatory Odile in the third act, could she have kept spinning till spring?
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2022
In Eliot’s book, Mr. Mistoffelees is a precious creation; in the musical, he is a gay icon, bedazzled like the night sky, sometimes pulling off twenty-four fouetté turns in a row.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2019
Arabesque, fouetté turn, soulful liquid melt to the mat with her arms outstretched.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2018
But given his skill and my incompetence, this was like a ballerina demonstrating a fouetté for a toddler with a broken leg.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2017
In ‘Nutcracker’ once, I made him drop his fouetté, from way up high, and he sat down on his bottom, butt facing the hall.
From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2013
Meaning was found in Siegfried’s impetuous leap and the Black Swan’s studied 32 fouettés.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2025
But she was less secure as the man-hungry doppelganger Odile in the ballet's third act, faltering on her fouettés and finally abandoning those whipping turns prematurely.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2019
Back then, watching Svetlana Khorkina was “like seeing a giraffe perfectly execute the 32 fouettés in Swan Lake.”
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2016
But then the ballerina was whipping off 32 perfect fouettés, and it was no longer possible to say where the shouting was coming from.
From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2013
Her experience shows in the way that she deploys contrast, from the soft-backed swoop of her promenades with Berlanga in their opening duet to the steely verticality of her triple fouettés in the coda.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2012
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