Costume depicted by Degas

Usage examples of tutu.

Old World mood, outrageously out of place amid its overcarved frumpery, and looking like cartoon ostriches clad in tutus and scrambling quacking through a rainy-day funeral.

He poured more tea and gave Matern photographs to look at: in a stiff tutu stood Jenny doing an arabesque, like the porcelain ballerina except that her leg was all in one piece.

It was the undergown of a dress with a rainbow assortment of skirts that stuck out like tutus from the hipline to the ankle.

Her body is so teeny that her head looks supersized in comparison, giving her the appearance of a lollipop in a tutu.

Herr Felsner-Imbs the piano teacher, with his piano and his yellowish stacks of music, his goldfish and his hourglass, his countless photographs of once famous artists, and his porcelain figurine in a porcelain tutu, immobilized on pointed porcelain slipper in a perfect arabesque, moved into the empty apartment, without changing the faded wallpaper in the living room or the large flower pattern that covered the walls of the bedroom.

Can I explain about the whole Fox Movietone era and those girls in tutus jumping over the sawhorses?

He tied on a gaudy green apron with dancing red chili peppers wearing ballet tutus and blue tennis shoes.

Shelby briefly imagined that the Tholians actually bore a striking resemblance to bunny rabbits in pink tutus, and that brought her some measure of relief.

Itwasn't the sort of thing Buchanan was likely to change hismind about after a good night's sleep, and there was asmuch chance of Grassick giving his blessing to a review ofhis wife's demise as of his donning a tutu and performingan entrechat in the forum of the High Court.

There were clowns, little dogs with ruffs, a ring master and even a ballerina in a pink tutu, who slotted into a cantering horse with a pink plume.