pointe
Americannoun
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the tip of the toe.
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a position on the extreme tips of the toes.
idioms
noun
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Etymology
Origin of pointe
1820–30; < French: pointe ( du pied ) “tiptoe,” literally, “extremity of the foot”
Example Sentences
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At 77, Yoko Morishita is still en pointe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The shimmering and pellucid choreographic poem presents its central woman as if arriving on a breeze by way of skimming steps on pointe and ultimately exiting as breezily as she arrived.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
Finally, as adults, they were getting the chance to wear the beautiful costume, don the pointe shoes and take center stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2024
I want her to read about Ingrid Silva, the Brazilian ballerina from the Dance Theater of Harlem, who, pregnant and in pointe shoes, graced the cover of Vogue Brazil in 2020.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2024
Eva: I’ve already gone through like five pairs of pointe shoes this school year.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
Boone scored eight pointes early in the second half as the Cowboys put together a 10-3 run to build a 14-point lead, 50-36 with 10:32 remaining.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
Johnson may be old, slow and worn down, but he is never sur les pointes.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2011
She swirled in flamencos, glided through a waltz, and in the purple breeches of a matador climaxed a gymnastic bullfight on pointes as delicately as a Russian ballerina.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their ten-month-old daughter Maria, Youskevitch says, "stays on her pointes very good."
From Time Magazine Archive
Very much is this Art furdred by other Artes: as, in some pointes, by Perspectiue: in some, by Statike: in some, by Trochilike: and in other, by Helicosophie: and Pneumatithmie.
From The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara by Dee, John
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