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fouetté

[ fwe-tey ]

noun

, Ballet.
, plural fouet·tés [fwe-, teyz, fwe-, tey].
  1. a whipping movement of the free leg, often executed during a turn.


fouetté

/ fwete /

noun

  1. a step in ballet in which the dancer stands on one foot and makes a whiplike movement with the other
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fouetté1

1820–30; < French, past participle of fouetter to whip
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fouetté1

C19: French, past participle of fouetter to whip, from fouet a whip
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Example Sentences

At her audition for the School of American Ballet at 15, she kept tossing off fouetté turns despite a burst blister that was bleeding through her toe shoe.

At her audition for the School of American Ballet at 15, she kept tossing off fouetté turns despite a burst blister that was bleeding through her toe shoe.

At the other extreme, more traditional displays of virtuosity ring out like alarms, as when Preston Chamblee whips through a series of fouetté turns, or when Ruby Lister, a striking new corps member, commands the stage alone with alert, springing jumps.

They have mastered the virtuoso sequence of 32 fouetté turns on pointe that bedevils even experienced ballerinas — and they like to add a bravura male step called a double tour to the knee at the end for good measure.

Boylston matched him with fouetté turns so fast you could almost feel the breeze.

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