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Webster 1913 Edition
Ballet
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1.
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.
2.
The company of persons who perform the ballet.
3.
(Mus.)
A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, – most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers; – also spelled
ballett
. 4.
(Her.)
A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ballet
BAL'LET
, n.20
1.
A kind of dance; an interlude; a comic dance, consisting of a series of several airs, with different movements, representing some subject or action.2.
A kind of dramatic poem, representing some fabulous action or subject, in which several persons appear and recite things, under the name of some deity or personage.In heraldry, ballets or balls, a bearing in coats of arms, denominated according to their color, bezants, plates, hurts, &c.