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单词 fouetté
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Definition of fouetté in English:

fouetté

noun ˈfwɛteɪfo͞oəˈtā
Ballet
  • 1A pirouette performed with a circular whipping movement of the raised leg to the side.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Fouettés are usually performed in a series, with the most famous example being Odile's 32 consecutive fouettés in Act III of Swan Lake.
    • Legnani would then do her thirty-two fouettés with the supporting leg never wandering outside the chalk circle.
    • The session ended with Bouder exhausted and Mann making a final revision of the position of the arms in the fouettés in a circle, bringing them down first, then overhead.
    • So, I came out for the coda, and while I was doing the fouettés, I sprained my ankle.
    • In Don Quixote Manolo Molina (as Fifi Barkova, as Kitri) even performs a series of fouettés - the whipping spins that most female dancers have trouble with.
    1. 1.1 A quick shift of direction of the upper body, performed with one leg extended.

Origin

French, past participle of fouetter 'to whip'.

 
 

Definition of fouetté in US English:

fouetté

nounfo͞oəˈtā
Ballet
  • 1A pirouette performed with a circular whipping movement of the raised leg to the side.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The session ended with Bouder exhausted and Mann making a final revision of the position of the arms in the fouettés in a circle, bringing them down first, then overhead.
    • Legnani would then do her thirty-two fouettés with the supporting leg never wandering outside the chalk circle.
    • So, I came out for the coda, and while I was doing the fouettés, I sprained my ankle.
    • Fouettés are usually performed in a series, with the most famous example being Odile's 32 consecutive fouettés in Act III of Swan Lake.
    • In Don Quixote Manolo Molina (as Fifi Barkova, as Kitri) even performs a series of fouettés - the whipping spins that most female dancers have trouble with.
    1. 1.1 A quick shift of direction of the upper body, performed with one leg extended.

Origin

French, past participle of fouetter ‘to whip’.

 
 
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