jamb
jambe
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a variation of
jamb.
Example Sentences
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During the 90-minute class, instructor Jessica Jaye Mackinson taught us to chassé, sauté, ronde de jambe and grand battement, a fancy French word for a three-sided kick.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2017
The sylph jumps with ronds de jambe sautés, quivering rapid circles of the foot in the air, with hummingbird speed; Ms. Woodward makes them gleam.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2016
I can do one of my ronds de jambe à terre.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2012
When he crossed the stage in the great vaulting diagonal, his ronds de jambe sautés crested the air with all the excitement that made full sense of this moment.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2010
I was in the studio at eight in the morning; I measured my drawing; I plumbed it throughout; I sketched in, having regard to la jambe qui porte; I modelled par les masses.
From Confessions of a Young Man by George (George Augustus) Moore
