French en pointe. See en and pointe. en pointe (not comparable) (ballet) On the tips of one's toes. en pointe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia epitenon en pointe (invariable)...
enté in point, enty in point, en point enté, enté en pointe French [Term?], compare Spanish entado en punta. enté en point (not comparable) (heraldry)...
IPA(key): /də pwɛ̃t/ de pointe (invariable) cutting-edge, state-of-the-art Synonyms: en pointe, dernier cri 2019 April 18, “En Corée du Nord, Kim Jong-un...
shuddering beneath its pointe work. — The Guardian 5th Jan 2007, p. 3 pointe shoe en pointe ballet position Petion From French pointe, from Late Latin puncta...
out on tiptoe so as not to awake the children. (adverbial): atiptoe, en pointe (ballet), tiptoeingly (rare) (adjectival): atiptoe, tiptoeing moving carefully...
this sense short for pointe des pieds (“tippy-toe”, literally “tip of the feet”); cf. French sur la pointe des pieds (“on tiptoe”). enPR: dĕm'ē-pointʹ, də-mē-pwăNtʹ...
genitive Spitzentanzes, plural Spitzentänze) (idiomatic, ballet) dance en pointe (non-idiomatic) professional dance; world-class dance; top dance Declension...
pointe shoe (plural pointe shoes) (ballet) A type of shoe with a strengthened toe, used for dancing on pointe. 2004, Toni Bentley, The Surrender: Instead...