ballonnén.

1706 P. Siris tr. R.-A. Feuillet Art of Dancing 39 Figure 9. Forwards en l'air, and afterwards falling on the same Leg, which is commonly call'd Contretemps Balonné.]

1760 L. Sterne Explan. Remarks Tristram Shandy xiv. 34 In France..it is more requisite for a professed politicans [sic] to have learnt to dance, than to have read Machiavel, for his arguments are better enforced by a caper.., or a baloné, than by the most Syllogistic logic of all the schools.

1778 English Mag. Feb. 59/2 I would not have a man enter a room en petit maitre, and present himself with a pas grave or a balloné.

1890 All Year Round 4 Oct. 321/1 Caroline Rosati..was a most fascinating representative of—to use a technical term—the ‘ballonné’ school of dancing.

1911 J. E. C. Flitch Mod. Dancing ii. 30 Its [sc. the ballet's] technique was developed by the introduction of pirouettes,..ballones.

1922 H. de V. Beauclerk & N. Evrenov tr. ‘V. Svetlov’ Thamar Karsavina 30 Accomplishing various brilliant steps (ballonés) in the Nereids.

1957 G. B. L. Wilson Dict. Ballet 46 Ballonné..lit. a ball-like or bouncing step. Any broad bounding movement and especially a movement in which the dancer springs upwards, opening one leg at hip height to the front, side, or back, and alights on the other foot, closing the first on the cou-de-pied.

1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 24 Mar. d9 She had some trouble warming up—even the sprightly little ballonnes which are Giselle's signature step were indistinct.

2004 Evening Standard (Nexis) 20 Aug. 37 I myself performed a breathtaking ballonne over the gap at Bank station.