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UK
/tˈɜːpsɪkˌɔːɹiən/
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ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to dancing
her terpsichorean activities
NOUN
- a performer who dances professionally
How To Use terpsichorean In A Sentence
- The Duke of Wellington got it more or less right when he said that the course of a battle was as difficult to follow as an evening spent in terpsichorean enjoyment.
- Established in 1994, it was thought by some to be on the same terpsichorean level as the famous Perm Ballet, even though the two companies, which shared the same theater, were diametrically opposed in their views of dance.
- Now when the French government sponsors a festival, it does so with a certain panache, and this offering of contemporary French dance provided a shop window on their terpsichorean culture with ten companies splashed over two weeks.
- Commonplace stuff, but the details of life are always shifting on you, and the child who dances without care in the middle of Southdale turns into the stoop-shouldered teen who rolls her eyes when you bring up her terpsichorean abandon.
- Everyone loved how we deflected their thoughts from the scurrilous rumors of a government-instigated famine in the Ukraine with a veritable cornucopia of terpsichorean appetizers! Diary of a Bolshoi Potato Dancer
- From terpsichorean temptress to sorority sweetheart, just like that. The Mata Hari of the Faculty Lounge
- For Brown, doing the Cirque work is like getting a terpsichorean passport through the world's different cultures, whether it's Chinese acrobatics or the Russian bar.
- It is the custom at some of their gatherings, after the hunting season is over, for the men to indulge in a kind of terpsichorean performance, at the same time relating in Homeric style the heroic deeds they have done. The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants
- It was clear that Anita Ratnam was an object of devotion and an inspiration to her talented young dancers - to whom she gave generous space to display their admirable terpsichorean gifts.
- Astaire 1899-1987 couldn't stand to think of himself as the embodiment of terpsichorean romance or a pin-up boy for love-starved shopgirls. He Just Had to Move
