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ballet

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1. ballet - Noun

2. ballet - Verb

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An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.

The company of persons who perform the ballet.

A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.

A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.

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When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire. Angelina Jolie

Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice. Faina Ranevskaya

Wrestling is ballet with violence. Jesse Ventura

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine. Rita Rudner

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. George Balanchine

Life is like a ballet performance - danced only once. Malian Proverb

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