Tanaquil
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Balanchine created Dewdrop on Tanaquil Le Clercq, a legendarily slender, long-limbed ballerina.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2017
“Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil le Clercq,” documentary by Nancy Buirski.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2014
Maria Konnikova recommends The Master’s Muse by Varley O'Connor Tanaquil LeClercq was the only one of George Balanchine's four wives—five, if you count his common-law marriage—who never wrote a memoir.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2012
By the time Jerome Robbins himself danced on with Tanaquil LeClercq to join in some hilarious, supine calisthenics, the audience was having trouble deciding whether to hold its sides or pound its palms.
From Time Magazine Archive
When they wished to hold before their daughters the ideal of a good housewife, they exhorted them to emulate Queen Tanaquil.
From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred
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