coryphéen.
/kɒrɪˈfeɪ/ The chief dancer in a ballet.
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premier danseur1822
première danseuse1822
coryphée1828
primo ballerino1840
prima ballerina1864
première1867
etoile1922
1828 J. Ebers Seven Years King's Theatre iii. 74 Nor was the scarcity of dresses confined to the coryphées and figurantes of the ballet.
1866 C. Engel Introd. Study National Music vii. 254 Round each set of dancers the people formed a ring, in which the figurantes and coryphées went through their operations.
1869 Daily News 14 Apr. Men dressed as coryphees, wriggling about like the Arab dancing-girls, to the sound of the native music.
1925 E. Sitwell et al. Poor Young People 3 Queen and coryphée.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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