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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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

Afterwards to the Opera to see Taglioni, who did not dance; then to Madame Appony’s, to whom I was introduced, and we had plenty of bowing and smirking and civilities about my family.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Henry Reeve

In 1833 Taglioni, then at the height of her powers, danced in London the comparatively insignificant parts of the Swiss peasant in Guillaume Tell and the ghostly abbess in Robert le Diable.

From Interpreters by Carl Van Vechten

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

From Forty Years of 'Spy' by Leslie Ward

I nearly went over that time—I had a paper-doll once, named Taglioni.

From Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls by Josephine Bruce