fouettés
- plural of fouetté.
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
If 32 fouettés, or whipping turns, are out of reach, substitute a circle of piqué turns.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2020
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
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
