| 释义 |
‖ retiré, n.2 Ballet.|rətire|
[Fr., pa. pple. of retirer to pull or draw back.]
A movement in which one leg (bent and fully turned outwards) is raised until the toe(s) touch the knee of the other leg.
1941C. W. Beaumont Third Primer Class. Ballet c. 43 Facing corner 2,..do 4 retirés travelling diagonally backwards to corner 4. 1957G. B. L. Wilson Dict. Ballet 228 Retiré,..the raising, from the fifth position, of the fully turned out thigh until it is at right angles to the body with the toe in line with the knee-cap of the supporting leg and closing front or back, in the fifth position. 1975‘M. Fonteyn’ Autobiogr. i. i. 21 Had my mother not drawn attention to the way in which Pavlova was performing her retirés I might have no memory at all of that genius of the dance. 1984Dance Theatre Jrnl. Feb. 43/2 The hair's breadth stop, the retiré suspended in time, eternal. |