bransle

1. : one of several couple dances of French origin that were popular in the 16th and 17th centuries, usually in duple measure, mimetic, accompanied by singing, and danced in groups typically in a circle. 2. : a sideward balance step in a clockwise direction used in branle dances.

(Clog Branle) The Branle des Sabots is an easy circle dance described in Arbeau's Orchésographie (1589).

noun. Also called Barbie doll . a person, especially a young woman, perceived as blandly attractive and vacuous.

1 a : a wooden shoe worn in various European countries b : a strap across the instep in a shoe especially of the sandal type; also : a shoe having a sabot strap 2 : a thrust-transmitting carrier that positions a missile in a gun barrel or launching tube and that prevents the escape of gas ahead of the missile 3 : a ...

a woman ballet dancer A ballerina is a woman ballet dancer.

BARBEE Family History English (of French Huguenot origin): Anglicized form of French Barbé (see Barbe ). Americanized form of French Barbier and possibly also of Barbé (compare 2 above).

BARBIE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary.

Did you know? The term sabot may have first been introduced into English in a 1607 translation from French: "wooden shoes," readers were informed, are "properly called sabots." The gun-related sense appeared in the mid-1800s with the invention of a wooden gizmo that kept gun shells from shifting in the gun barrel.

They are used primarily to fire long rods of very dense materials, such as tungsten heavy alloy and depleted uranium. (see for example the M829 series of anti-tank projectiles).

The word “ballerina,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary, originated in the late 1700s and was the feminine of ballerino, Italian for “dancing master,” which descended from the Latin ballare, “to dance.” More recent definitions include Merriam-Webster's “a woman who is a ballet dancer” and American Heritage's “ ...

"Prima ballerina literally translates to “first principal dancer” from Italian and, in the United States, is better known as someone who is a female principal dancer. These dancers are the best in their companies who perform the lead roles in ballets, along with their male counterparts".

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