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Definition of Massine
1. Noun. French choreographer and ballet dancer (born in Russia) (1895-1979).
Generic synonyms: Choreographer, Dancer, Professional Dancer, Terpsichorean
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Literary usage of Massine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
""Saratoga" with music by Jaromir Weinberger, choreography by massine and ... "St.
Francis," by massine and Paul Hindemith, was added to the repertory in a ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"massine never sees massine; so that here, you say, is veritably the authentic
case of art for art's sake. But, precisely on the contrary, it is an art whose ..."
3. Report on the Manuscripts of the Earl of Ancaster, Preserved at Grimsthorpe by Peregrine Bertie Willoughby de Eresby, Sophia Crawford Lomas (1907)
"... the citty well walled and the protest[ants] a faire temple there. Friday, the
1st of December my Lord went from St. massine and dined at ..."
4. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1921)
"Of the recent tendency of the Ballet to simplify scenery, Huntly Carter writes
from Paris as follows: "massine, who produces all the pieces nowadays, ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1816)
"... and alluvial classes;'— 'indeterminate angular;' —' It occurs massine, tuberose,
and a shape;' — ' very slightly common flexible;'— ' finer granular;'—' ..."
6. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana, James Dwight Dana (1877)
"Concretionary massine. Oolite (Rogenstein, Genn.) is a granular limestone, but
its grains are minute rounded concretions, looking somewhat like the roe of a ..."
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