Taglioni

British  

/ taˈʎoni /

noun

1. Marie. 1804–84, Italian ballet dancer, whose romantic style greatly influenced ballet in the 19th century

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Example Sentences

Cornell's Europe, however, ended with World War I and perpetuated itself in hotel letterheads from French spas, fragments of Baedeker maps and reverent evocations of ballerinas, from Marie Taglioni to Loie Fuller.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had been able to determine for myself before then that Marie Taglioni was by no means a good-looking woman, but I did not expect her to be so plain as she was.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.

I have elsewhere noted the meeting of Taglioni with her husband at De Morny's dinner-party.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.

It was as though Taglioni, resplendent with Jewels, had been dancing her very best to the strains of a Scotch bag-pipe.

From Buzz a Buzz or The Bees by Busch, Wilhelm

A queen of another sort, Taglioni, here consoled herself for the quiet of her retirement from the stage.

From Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) by Howe, Julia Ward