fouetté
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See also: fouette
English
Etymology
From French fouetté (“whipped”).
Pronunciation
Noun
fouetté (plural fouettés)
- (ballet) A ballet move in which either the body or the working leg is whipped around forcefully.
- 2023, Brandon Taylor, The Late Americans, Jonathan Cape, page 143:
- Sometimes, when they were drinking, Goran would get up from the floor and do a pirouette or a fouetté, for a moment so graceful and beautiful that it hurt to look at him.
Translations
See also
Glossary of ballet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Pronunciation
Participle
fouetté (feminine fouettée, masculine plural fouettés, feminine plural fouettées)
Adjective
fouetté (feminine fouettée, masculine plural fouettés, feminine plural fouettées)
Further reading
- “fouetté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.