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- noun Alternative spelling of
bourrée .
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Examples
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He passed a green felt table where men were playing bourree in a cone of yellow light given off by a bulb inside a tin shade.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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He passed a green felt table where men were playing bourree in a cone of yellow light given off by a bulb inside a tin shade.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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He passed a green felt table where men were playing bourree in a cone of yellow light given off by a bulb inside a tin shade.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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He passed a green felt table where men were playing bourree in a cone of yellow light given off by a bulb inside a tin shade.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Despite the presence of Ethan Stiefel, there was practically no ballet in this underdog story about a dancer with no formal training who aspires to join the ranks of a ballet academy despite sickle feet, a bourree with surplus butt jiggle, and all the elegance of Britney Spears slinging hash.
All the World's a Stage, and I Wish Some People Would Get Off of It: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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I will never forget her exquisite bourree en arriere - the floating quality of her run backwards on her pointes - and the shock when for lack of stage depth she hit the scenery against the back wall and fell.
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A little higher, and I passed a pair of men in a tree with pruning-hooks, and one of them was singing the music of a bourree.
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A little higher, and I passed a pair of men in a tree with pruning-hooks, and one of them was singing the music of a bourree.
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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I hear of no great advance in what are thought the essentials of morality; but the bourree, with its rambling, sweet, interminable music, and alert and rustic figures, has fallen into disuse, and is mostly remembered as a custom of the past.
Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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In the exquisite Sugar Plum Fairy solo her tiptoeing pas de bourree seemed wired to Tchaikovsky's twinkling celesta.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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