“Puss-in-Boots”

1. A French fairy tale from the collection of Charles Perrault. A cunning cat brings great fortune to its master, a poor young man. Through a series of deceptions managed by the cat, the young man becomes a lord and marries the king's daughter.

Example Sentences

They pose Shrek and co., including Puss-in-Boots, and Donkey—animals, let’s keep that in mind—next to a bunch of models in these suggestive poses, which really feels like a perhaps unintentional overlap with what would come to define the Shrek internet fandom.

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In these fin-de-siècle pages, Sleeping Beauty much prefers dreaming to real life; little Liette, retelling the gospel account of the Nativity, includes Bluebeard’s wife and Puss-in-Boots’s Marquis of Carabas among the adoring angels, Wise Men and shepherds; and in the collection’s title story, “Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned,” Willy — the great writer Colette’s first husband — reveals that Red Riding Hood actually incited the starving wolf to gobble up her grandmother and then turned the poor fellow into the police.

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A similar magic has been wrought with the divertissement for Puss-in-Boots and the White Cat.

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Mr. Ratmansky was animated in recent rehearsals, quick to jump up and demonstrate steps himself, showing how to make Puss-in-Boots and the White Cat a little friskier or Aurora a little more graceful or the Mazurka a little snappier.

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Spread out on a small rug, Viktor's own pitiful wares consist of an old gas mask, tatty Soviet science fiction novels, a portrait of Puss-in-Boots and a Walt Disney Christmas Annual.

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