The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bayadere \Ba`ya*dere"\, n. [F., from Pg. bailadeira a female dancer, bailar to dance.] A female dancer in the East Indies. [Written also bajadere.]
Wiktionary
n. (context countable dated English) A female dancer
n. A Hindu dancing-girl.
Wikipedia
Bayadere may refer to:
- Bayadere is a European term for devadasi — a female dancer in India, often clothed in loose Eastern costume
- Die Bajadere, an operetta by Emmerich Kalman
- Die Bajadere, a polka by Johann Strauss II
- La Bayadère, a ballet by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus
- Bayadere (fabric) is a type of woven fabric with a striped pattern.
Usage examples of "bayadere".
The Bayadere Eudaemon Broceliande Lyonesse Tithonus An Ode to Antares Translations Dante.
The ordinary bayadere is so common an object in India as to attract but little notice from anyone of refined tastes, but this girl, judging from the chaste beauty of her movements, was of a very different type.
The reflection of a greater thing claimed her and taught her, held her like a bayadere in a temple court.
When the universal jollity had reached its height, two Bayaderes, who belonged to the suite of the Maharajah of Sabathu, made their appearance, Indian beauties, whose voluptuous feminine charms were calculated to make the blood even of the spoilt European run warm.
And you too were there, Sultans with long pipes, reclining beneath arbors in the arms of Bayadères.
The bayaderes remain dancing before the idol a long time after all this is done.
And you, too, were there, Sultans with long pipes reclining beneath arbours in the arms of Bayaderes.
At the same time he seemed to behold amid the stirless vegetation, in flashing glimpses, the half-veiled limbs of dancing bayaderes.