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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who dances in a theatrical or operatic ballet. See ballet, 1.

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Examples

  • To quote a dictum of Simon, what a horse does under compulsion he does blindly, and his performance is no more beautiful than would be that of a ballet-dancer taught by whip and goad.

    On Horsemanship 2007

  • And yet in the presence of the man she had this instant begun to hate vehemently, she forced the kind of smile which a ballet-dancer puts on for the public.

    Albert Savarus 2007

  • He started with a sort of ballet-dancer run, shivering his feathers out fluffily as he went.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Glenda Larke 2007

  • And yet in the presence of the man she had this instant begun to hate vehemently, she forced the kind of smile which a ballet-dancer puts on for the public.

    Albert Savarus 2007

  • The disadvantage is that they cost more than regular tights and they only come in ballet-dancer colors.

    the necessary infrastructure - A Dress A Day 2006

  • In the little history of “Lovel the Widower” I described, and brought to condign punishment, a certain wretch of a ballet-dancer, who lived splendidly for a while on ill-gotten gains, had an accident, and lost her beauty, and died poor, deserted, ugly, and every way odious.

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • And if a singer, why should not a ballet-dancer come bounding on the stage with his cordon, and cut capers to the music of a row of decorated fiddlers?

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • I met you yesterday openly walking with a French ballet-dancer, and you took off your hat.

    The Virginians 2006

  • Alexis had the grace and elegance; she had the ballet-dancer body and the sleek, fashionable clothes.

    To Catch a Prince Gillian McKnight 2005

  • Alexis had the grace and elegance; she had the ballet-dancer body and the sleek, fashionable clothes.

    To Catch a Prince Gillian McKnight 2005

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