pointe

[pwant]

noun

Ballet.

plural

pointes 

1. the tip of the toe.

2. a position on the extreme tips of the toes.

pointe

/ pɔɪnt /

noun

1. ballet the tip of the toe (esp in the phrase on pointes )

Word History and Origins

Origin of pointe¹

1820–30; < French: pointe ( du pied ) “tiptoe,” literally, “extremity of the foot”

Word History and Origins

Origin of pointe¹

from French: point

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. on / en pointe, supporting one’s body weight on the extreme tips of the toes: null onen pointes

   dancing on pointe.

Example Sentences

We’re looking forward to taking ballet and tumbling at To The Pointe Dance and Pilates Centre.

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Though the party is not a lavish affair — just a gathering for friends and family in the backyard of a rental property on El Dorado Drive in Grosse Pointe, Mich. — it’s more than Pam Bishop can afford, and every one of her guests knows it.

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She’s not part of the community, either, because she’s recently returned to Grosse Pointe after time away to mend her broken heart.

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Despite the book’s suggestive title, the landscape is anything but illusory for Abbott, who grew up in Grosse Pointe and spent the first 18 years of her life there.

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And when I think back to the salad days of COVID-19, when I was massaging the line, I think I was mostly trying to figure out how vampire Lestat de Lioncourt could get himself out of the two-murdered-priests hole he had dug himself in with the mortal Louis de Pointe Du Lac.

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