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Definition of Balletic
1. Adjective. Characteristic of or resembling or suitable for ballet.
Definition of Balletic
1. Adjective. Pertaining to or suitable for ballet. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Balletic
1. ballet [adj] - See also: ballet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Balletic
Literary usage of Balletic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs by Thomas Percy, J. V. Prichard (1876)
"342], who refers to a collection of balletic published by Gastaldi, and printed
at Antwerp in 1596 [iii. 226]. But the word appears to have had an earlier ..."
2. Memoirs of Aaron Burr: With Miscellaneous Selections from His Correspondence by Aaron Burr, Matthew Livingston Davis (1837)
"If you are to prac tise on Wednesday evening, do not stay away for the expectation
of receiving me. If you should be at the balletic, I will go forthwith to ..."
3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1869)
"In order to increase the balletic power, the relative proportion of picrate of
potash in the mixture most be increased. For musket powder it has been proved ..."
4. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1844)
"... have the meanest aspect, and are no more to be compared with our modern
cloth-binding, than the jupon of a trull, with the balletic dress of Taglioni. ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1870)
"The principal advantages of these new powders are the following: Increase of
balletic power without increase of explosive power; the base remaining the same ..."