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Definition of Fouette
1. Noun. (ballet) A ballet move in which either the body or the working leg is whipped around forcefully. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fouette
1. a movement in ballet [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fouette
Literary usage of Fouette
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"Les voiles La plaie fouette contre les vitres, the rain beats against the window.
... fouette", e, streaked. (T. d'artillerie.) La batterie fouettait sur la ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1830)
"And lastly, an animal which he terms fouette-queue, because he judges it to be
... by adding the fouette-queue of M. de Lacepede to Gmelin's three species, ..."
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