tour en l'air
Americannoun
plural
tours en l'airEtymology
Origin of tour en l'air
< French: turn in the air
Example Sentences
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In ballet, a tour en l’air is a jump with a turn in the air; the more turns there are, the more demanding it becomes.
From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2022
Gene said that Holmes could perform many complicated turns better than a man, including a double tour en l’air, and that she instructed him to dance with great strength, particularly in his arms.
From Slate • Aug. 26, 2019
A shaman of Nigeria's Yoruba tribe summoning ancestral spirits to the beat of throbbing drums and Mikhail Baryshnikov executing a triple tour en l'air are both paradigms of poetry in action.
From Time Magazine Archive
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