pointe
noun
the tip of the toe.
pointes
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pluralof pointe.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Their ten-month-old daughter Maria, Youskevitch says, "stays on her pointes very good."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
And that you may the easier perceiue, and better remember, the principall pointes, whereof my Preface treateth, The Ground platt of this Præface in a Table.
From The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara by John Dee
