grand jeté
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of grand jeté
Borrowed into English from French around 1925–30
Example Sentences
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At Pacific Northwest Ballet on Friday night, the evening began with 11-year-old PNB School student Charlotte Smith, whose beaming smile and effortless grand jeté in the ballet’s opening solo moment spoke to a bright future.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
“It could be seen as a form of dance technique, even if it’s not a grand jeté or a tendu.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
In the sinewy 41-year-old ballet dancer’s telling, it wasn’t really such a grand jeté to exit the stage of an iconic opera house and enlist in the Ukrainian army.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
If you graph the height of her head throughout a grand jeté, it resembles more of a plateau than a peaked parabola.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2015
And the glare of publicity that followed his grand jeté to the West offered his partner the brightest, whitest arena in which to succeed or fail.
From Time Magazine Archive
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