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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Taglioni

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

Taglioni, in pencil caricature, her limbs “divinely slender,” gyrated on her toes in reckless abandon above this mute record of names now forgotten.

From The Strollers by Harrison Fisher

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 Wilhelm Busch

His burlesque of Taglioni was side-splitting, especially as he grew stouter.

From Forty Years of 'Spy' by Leslie Ward

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.

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