Definition of Fouetté

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 Fouetté

1. a movement in ballet [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fouetté

fotograph
fou
fouat
fouats
foud
foudrie
foudries
foudroyant
fouds
fouer
fouest
fouet
fouets
fouette
fouettes
fouetté (current term)
fougade
fougades
fougerite
fough
fought
foughten
foughtier
foughty
foul
foul-mouthed
foul-smelling
foul-spoken

Literary usage of Fouetté

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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