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‖ coryphée|kɔrife|
[F.; ad. L. coryphæus: see prec.]
The chief dancer in a ballet.
1828J. Ebers 7 Yrs. King's Theatre iii. 74 Nor was the scarcity of dresses confined to the coryphées and figurantes of the ballet. 1866Engel Nat. Mus. vii. 254 Round each set of dancers the people formed a ring, in which the figurantes and coryphées went through their operations. 1869Daily News 14 Apr., Men dressed as coryphees, wriggling about like the Arab dancing-girls, to the sound of the native music. 1925E., O. & S. Sitwell Poor Young People 3 Queen and coryphée. |