Crossword clues for danseuse
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Danseuse \Dan`seuse"\, n. [F., fr. danser to dance.] A professional female dancer; a woman who dances at a public exhibition as in a ballet.
Wiktionary
WordNet
n. a female ballet dancer [syn: ballerina]
Wikipedia
Danseuse is a French female term in the ballet and may refer to:
- Ballerina, sometimes taken as synonymous to a principal dancer
- Soloist, a more general term in ballet
- Corps de ballet, the group of dancers who are not soloists
Danseuse(s) may also refer to:
- Danseuse (Csaky) (1912), sculpture created by Joseph Csaky
- " Danseuses de Delphes" (1910), one of 24 piano pieces in Préludes by Claude Debussy
Danseuse, also known as Femme à l'éventail, or Femme à la cruche, is an early Cubist sculpture created in 1912 by the Hungarian avant-garde sculptor Joseph Csaky (1888–1971). This black and white photograph from the Csaky family archives shows a frontal view of the original 1912 plaster. Danseuse was exhibited in Paris at the 1912 Salon d'Automne (n. 405), an exhibition that provoked a succès de scandale and resulted in a xenophobic and anti-modernist quarrel in the French National Assembly. The sculpture was then exhibited at the 1914 Salon des Indépendants entitled Femme à l'éventail (n. 813); and at Galerie Moos, Geneva, 1920, entitled Femme à la cruche.
Usage examples of "danseuse".
I felt inclined to learn dancing of the danseuse who acquired such a reputation in London.
After the cachucha he placed a magnificent ring on the stem of a bouquet, and threw it to the charming danseuse, who, in the third act, to do honor to the gift, reappeared with it on her finger.
I did not send him because I thought a fast canter on Danseuse in the crisp November evening would help to rid me of some of the fear and anxiety by which I felt myself gripped.
I tied Danseuse to her post outside the Jovial Rushcutters and my face was aflame.
Doctor Murdoch came into the tavern, but so confused and excited was I by my amours with Meg Storey, that I no longer thought to find him there, but spent the rest of the night riding hither and thither in search of him, until Danseuse would gallop no more and we walked wearily home.
Meg would sigh with wonder at such unimaginable things and threaten to drift to sleep, lulled by my voice, while outside I would hear poor Danseuse paw the frosty ground and whinny with cold.
In a sudden excess of affection for him, I offered to give him my horse, Danseuse, for his journey, but he refused, informing me that the mare was too strong and high-spirited for him and requesting me modestly to purchase a new mule for him.
At dawn the following morning, I was reunited with Danseuse and gratified by the little whinny of delight with which the mare greeted me.
Was it to be expected that I should ride about the villages on Danseuse trawling for the Idle and sending them packing to the looms, succouring the Impotent with sixpences and chicken legs?
Ill as I knew myself to be, I rose immediately and went to the low window and looked out for, to my great chagrin, I now remembered that Danseuse had not been stabled the previous night and had spent it tied to a post under the cold stars.
I have requested that one of my grooms saddle up Danseuse like a packhorse with a few true possessions and trot her by slow stages to London.
Should Danseuse step with her sweet daintiness into a pothole and break her leg, I shall be forced to purchase for myself some horrible biting mule.
A wind got up, making Danseuse nervous, so that she became for a while a dancer indeed, shying at gusts.
Hospital, which is a cluster of barns built around a lime-washed low-roofed house such as might house a yeoman farmer, Danseuse stopped dead and, though I kicked vigorously at her flanks, she could not be persuaded forward.
An iron gate had been let into the wall and it was towards this that I led Danseuse, having put a comforting arm round her neck.