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ballerina|bæləˈriːnə|
Pl. ballerinas; formerly also ballerine (as It.).
[It., fem. of ballerino.]
a. A female dancer, a ballet-girl. In mod. use almost exclusively a dancer taking one of the five leading classical female roles in ballet.
1792A. Young Trav. France 216 The ballarini, or female dancers, have the same fury of motion. 1815Byron in Moore Life 289 A row among our ballerinas. 1878in Grove Dict. Mus. I. 131 The first professional ballerina of note..was Mlle. Lafontaine. Ibid. 132 These eminent ballerine. 1911J. E. C. Flitch Mod. Dancing ix. 127 At seventeen they [sc. pupils at the Imperial (Russian) Ballet School] begin their career as members of the corps de ballet, from which the most prominent rise upwards..through the various grades of..premier sujet, première danseuse or ballerina, and ballerina assoluta. 1934A. L. Haskell Balletomania iii. 57 Actually, even in Russia, the home of ballet, the ballerina was a rarity. It was as definite and as official a rank as that of General... There were only five ballerinas of the Maryinsky at any one time. 1936‘C. Brahms’ Footnotes to Ballet ii. 70 But whatever her position (whether she be ballerina or chorina), the dancer is extended at her best in this work. 1952Even. News 5 Jan. 4/3 A young dancer not yet accorded ballerina status. 1962Times 14 Dec. 16/4 Madame Catherine Geltzer, the Russian ballerina assoluta.
b. ballerina shoe, a light, pliable shoe of the shape worn by ballerinas; also ellipt.
1950Leader 1 Apr. 34/2 Flat ‘ballerina’ shoes with criss-cross straps. 1959Housewife June 26 We show the Ladies 38 slip on Ballerina. |