port de bras

American  

[pawr duh bra] / pɔr də ˈbra /

noun

Ballet.

1. (used with a singular verb)  the technique of moving the arms properly.

2. (used with a plural verb)  the exercises for developing this technique.

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Etymology

Origin of port de bras

1910–15; < French: carriage of arm

Example Sentences

Surrounded by Nets players, Tatum stretches into the air, his arm extending toward the basket in an elegant port de bras.

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I studied Makarova’s port de bras.

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“There is a port de bras, which you only learn from ballet, which I was really engraving into my body,” he said.

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It’s the port de bras, the lower body work, I grew up admiring.

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“I didn’t want to express the sorrows of our times through slow port de bras. I wanted to give them the chance to do some real dancing, with joy and playfulness.”

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