See also: développé and développe

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French développé.

Noun edit

developpe (plural developpes)

  1. (ballet) Alternative form of développé
    • 1988 October 7, Laura Molzahn, “Between Heaven and the Gargabe Can”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      Performing a curiously melancholy, undulating developpe, the dancers point their legs at each other like accusing fingers.