Definition of Ballet

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Ballet

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.

The company of persons who perform the ballet.

A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.

A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.

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Ballet Quotations

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.
Rita Rudner

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.
Angelina Jolie

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
Quentin Crisp

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
George Balanchine

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
George Balanchine

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
George Balanchine

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
Ritchie Blackmore

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.
Isadora Duncan

Wrestling is ballet with violence.
Jesse Ventura

Ballet Translations

ballet in Afrikaans is ballet
ballet in Danish is ballet
ballet in Dutch is ballet
ballet in French is ballet
ballet in German is Ballett
ballet in Spanish is ballet
ballet in Swedish is balett

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