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Definition of Ballet

1. Noun. A theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers.

Definition of Ballet

1. n. 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.

Definition of Ballet

1. Noun. A classical form of dance. ¹

2. Noun. A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ballet

1. a classical dance form [n -S] : BALLETIC [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ballet

Literary usage of Ballet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"ballet, a performance in which dancing, music and pantomime arc involved. ... The present acceptation of the word ballet is—a theatrical representation in ..."

2. Dancing by Lilly Grove Frazer, Lilly Grove, Percy Macquoid (1895)
"CHAPTER XII THE ballet THE history of the ballet is interesting, for in its widest sense it is also the history of our modern opera ; but if we take the ..."

3. Germany by Heinrich Heine, Charles Godfrey Leland (1906)
"LUMLEY, director of Her Majesty's Theatre in London, requested me to write a ballet, and in accordance with his wish I composed the following poem. ..."

4. Before the Footlights and Behind the Scenes: a Book about "the Show Business by Olive Logan (1870)
"The ballet Girl's Miseries and Tortures. The Story of Mile. Eulalie. ... A ballet at Rehearsal. — The ballet in its Influence on Morals. ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"ballet, ball, and ballad." Through the gradual changes in tho amusements of different ages, the meaning of the first two worda has nt length become limited ..."

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