premier danseur

noun

pre·mier dan·seur prə-myā-däⁿ-ˈsœr

: the principal male dancer in a ballet company

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borrowed from French, "first dancer"

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1822, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of premier danseur was in 1822

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