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Ballet   /bælˈeɪ/   Listen
Ballet

noun
1.
A theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers.  Synonym: concert dance.
2.
Music written for a ballet.



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"Ballet" Quotes from Famous Books



... vicinity of the great seaport where St. Paul must have landed from his ship of the Castor and Pollux, on his way from Syracuse. But he does not tell the Doctor that, on the same evening, he attended an opera at the San Carlo in Naples, of which the ballet, if nothing else, would have called down the good ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 • Various
... . . . The waist is low-cut with a yoke of cream-colored embroidery, the skirt is plain with a shirred hem, the hat is trimmed with violets," another girl was recounting, as she slipped her ballet skirts over ...
— The Comedienne • Wladyslaw Reymont
... respectable woman; she was in the second row of the Varolium ballet for years and years; and she always kept Millie very respectable. Besides, you can't let people go ...
— Happy Pollyooly - The Rich Little Poor Girl • Edgar Jepson
... at what is called "the height of the season." Among the operatic attractions of that year—I am writing of the days when the ballet was still a popular form of public entertainment—there was a certain dancer whose grace and beauty were the objects of universal admiration. I was asked if I had seen her, wherever I went, until my social position, ...
— The Two Destinies • Wilkie Collins
... over his shoulders hung a royal mantle of velvet, lined with ermine, the train of which was borne by dwarfs. Simultaneously the sound of trumpets, drums, and hautboys filled the air with martial melody, and all the fairies began to dance a ballet, with step so light that the least spring lifted them to the ...
— Old-Time Stories • Charles Perrault


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