Definition of Balletic

1. Adjective. Characteristic of or resembling or suitable for ballet.

Derivative terms: Ballet, Ballet
Partainyms: 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

ballestras
ballet
ballet company
ballet dad
ballet dancer
ballet flat
ballet flats
ballet master
ballet music
ballet position
ballet skirt
balleted
balletgoer
balletgoers
balletgoing
balletic (current term)
balletically
balleting
balletlike
balletmaster
balletmasters
balletomane
balletomanes
balletomania
balletomanias
ballets
balletwear
ballfield
ballfields
ballgame

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 ..."

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