fouetté

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French fouetté (whipped).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfwɛteɪ/, /fwɛˈteɪ/ (or as French, below)

Noun[edit]

fouetté (plural fouettés)

  1. (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.

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French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /fwɛ.te/, /fwe.te/
  • (file)

Participle[edit]

fouetté (feminine fouettée, masculine plural fouettés, feminine plural fouettées)

  1. past participle of fouetter

Adjective[edit]

fouetté (feminine fouettée, masculine plural fouettés, feminine plural fouettées)

  1. whipped

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