fouetté
See also: fouette
English
editEtymology
editFrom French fouetté (“whipped”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfouetté (plural fouettés)
- (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
editSee also
edit- Glossary of ballet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
editPronunciation
editParticiple
editfouetté (feminine fouettée, masculine plural fouettés, feminine plural fouettées)
Adjective
editfouetté (feminine fouettée, masculine plural fouettés, feminine plural fouettées)
Further reading
edit- “fouetté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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