fouetté
noun
a whipping movement of the free leg, often executed during a turn.
fouettés
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pluralof fouetté.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
For this ballerina, performing 32 fouettés — those flashy whipping turns made famous in “Swan Lake” — is like a rest step, she once told me.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2018
Back then, watching Svetlana Khorkina was “like seeing a giraffe perfectly execute the 32 fouettés in Swan Lake.”
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2016
Then maybe next time a movie like Black Swan comes along, the leading lady can do her own fouettés.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 20, 2011
