jeté
Americannoun
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jetés
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of jeté
1820–30; < French: literally, thrown, past participle of jeter to throw; see jet 1
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A video clip featured in the “Addictive Ballet” episode shows New York City Ballet principal dancer Ashley Bouder launching herself into a jeté so high she seems to leave Earth’s gravity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
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
I watched my host mother do this effortlessly, like Anna Pavlova performing a grande jeté.
From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2020
After, she approached him with some pointers on his grand jeté en croisée.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2015
“I not ever forget that pig Barthampton jeté par terre.”
From Burning Sands by Arthur Weigal
But her career in offices has taken leaps as stunning as her jetés onstage.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 25, 2023
The solo, from Jerome Robbins’s “Dances at a Gathering,” is meditative and internal; gradually, Garcia’s energy becomes more insistent, more explosive as he sweeps around the space in grand jetés.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2021
Set to Jennifer Hudson’s rendition of the song “Memory,” the trailer features Hayward’s flawless jetés, pirouettes and long extensions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2019
The narration can be slightly too clever for whatever character’s point of view is supposed to be controlling it, and from time to time the dialogue performs sudden jetés into overarticulateness.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 14, 2016
We could hear the rhythmic thuds of the students practicing their petit jetés and changements.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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