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‖ prima ballerina|ˈpriːmə baləˈriːnə, bælər-|
Pl. prime ballerine, prima ballerinas.
[It., lit. = first female dancer.]
1. a. A ballerina of the highest rank; the leading ballerina of a ballet company. Cf. ballerina, première danseuse.
1900J. T. Grein in Sunday Special 23 Sept. 2/2 Curiously enough for many years the London public has failed to do justice to the prima ballerina. 1912J. E. C. Flitch Mod. Dancing & Dancers iv. 62 At the Alhambra..the dancing of the prime ballerine, almost all of whom were foreign, left little to be desired. 1918D. H. Lawrence Let. 12 Jan. (1962) I. 536, I dreamed you were a sort of prima ballerina—which is the translation of a cinema star, I suppose. 1921Dancing Times June 709 Lydia Lopokova has made a welcome re-appearance..as prima ballerina of the Diaghileff Company. 1955Times 19 May 3/7 The transformation of Mephistopheles into the prima ballerina Mephistophela is thoroughly Heinesque. 1958Times 13 Sept. 10/5 Her Giselle was a fragile, vulnerable creature, excessively shy, and bearing no mark of the prima ballerina. 1976P. Harcourt Dance for Diplomats iii. 30 He paid homage to his prima ballerina and the corps de ballet.
b. prima ballerina assoluta [It., lit. = absolute], a prima ballerina of outstanding excellence.
1870T. A. Brown Hist. Amer. Stage 33/2 She made her debut as prima ballerina assoluta in the Teatro Regio in Ancona. 1904A. Bennett Great Man xvii. 181 The glimpse which Henry had of the prima ballerina assoluta in her final pose..caused him to turn..to Geraldine to see whether she was not shocked. 1915M. E. Perugini Art of Ballet xxxii. 272 With Signorina Maria Bordin..as prima ballerina assoluta..the production achieved instant success. 1928New Statesman 31 Mar. 793/1 Tilly Losch (prima ballerina assoluta of the Vienna Opera-house). 1957G. B. L. Wilson Dict. Ballet 37 Only twice in the history of the Imperial Th. was the additional title of ‘prima ballerina assoluta’ bestowed—on Pierina Legnani and on Mathilde Kschessinska. 1975New Yorker 26 May 31/1 She..said that the Bolshoi's former prima ballerina assoluta, Galina Ulanova, was now one of its most valued teachers. 1978Ld. Drogheda Double Harness xxi. 300 She would inherit the position of prima ballerina assoluta, with her name standing alone at the top of the list of dancers.
2. transf. and fig. spec. an important or self-important person; something which has leading status in its particular field.
1954Economist 11 Sept. 1/1 A prolonged attack of stage fright has repeatedly postponed the entrance of the new fighters..into squadron service with the RAF and the new prima ballerina, the supersonic P.1 fighter, has not turned up this week at rehearsals. 1964M. Clive Day of Reckoning viii. 71 Any old lady..could turn..her daily round into a sort of sacred ballet, herself the prima ballerina. 1975N. Luard Robespierre Serial xvi. 146 I'm right with you however our prima ballerina responds. But what the hell are you going to tell him? |