fouetté

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See also: fouette

English

Etymology

From French fouetté (whipped).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfwɛteɪ/, /fwɛˈteɪ/ (or as French, below)

Noun

fouetté (plural fouettés)

  1. (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

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fwɛ.te/ ~ /fwe.te/
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Participle

fouetté (feminine fouettée, masculine plural fouettés, feminine plural fouettées)

  1. past participle of fouetter

Adjective

fouetté (feminine fouettée, masculine plural fouettés, feminine plural fouettées)

  1. whipped

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