première danseuse
Americannoun
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premières danseuses
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of première danseuse
1820–30; < French: literally, first dancer (feminine)
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In Manhattan last week General Manager Guilio Gatti-Casazza announced plans for the Metropolitan Opera's coming season, married Rosina Galli, his première danseuse, and sailed for Europe.
From Time Magazine Archive
She reminded me simultaneously, as she descended, of a mystic Russian première danseuse, a barefooted native swinging down his cocoanut grove, and High Diddle Dumpling my son John.
From Life's Minor Collisions by Frances Lester Warner
She had taken quietly enough the substitution of Patty for herself as première danseuse, and had even said she preferred the part that had been assigned her.
From Patty Blossom by Carolyn Wells
There was another dancer there, an old grenadier of a woman who had been famous in her time as a première danseuse at the opera.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
But then it must be borne in mind that the première danseuse is a lady whose quickness of perception is altogether unique.
From Diary of a Pilgrimage by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
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