Ballet
['bæleɪ;-lɪ] or [bæ'le]
Definition
(noun.) a theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers.
(noun.) music written for a ballet.
Edited by Augustus--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.
(n.) The company of persons who perform the ballet.
(n.) A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.
(n.) A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.
Typed by Harley
Definition
n. a theatrical exhibition composed of dancing posturing and pantomimic action: (obs.) a dance.
Inputed by Jeff
Unserious Contents or Definition
Indicates infidelity in the marriage state; also failures in business, and quarrels and jealousies among sweethearts.
Edited by Elise
Examples
- She is fairly introduced into our _corps de ballet_, and will figure, from time to time, in her turn, with other performers. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- After I had been an hour at the play, the manager came around and asked me to go underneath the stage, as they were putting on a ballet of 300 girls, the finest ballet in Europe. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Ain't these girls like the ballet at the Alhambra? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- In this instance it was not occupied, and I was given the position in the prompter's seat, and saw the whole ballet at close range. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The idea was to make a little ballet, in the style of the Russian Ballet of Pavlova and Nijinsky. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- You're as innocent as your mother, the ballet-girl, and your husband the bully. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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