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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On Sunday when, as Odile, Ms. Lovette whipped off as many fouetté turns as she could manage before falling out, she made a dazzling change in real time: She switched to piqué turns.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2020
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
And there was a small group of Marines, a little uncomfortable in their suits, ready to watch the story of their lives told onstage through incomprehensible grand jeté, fouetté en tournant and chassé.
From Washington Post
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 ballet steps — pas de chat, cabrioles, grands fouettés sautés and more — abound; so do Cunningham uses of legs and torso.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2014
As Odile, Osipova is on more familiar ground, cutting loose with a display of minxy mischief culminating in fouettés of eye-popping speed and virtuosity.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2012
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