fouetté

See also: fouette

English

Etymology

From French fouetté (“whipped”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

Translations

ballet move

• German: Fouetté n
• Swedish: fouetté (sv) c

See also

• Glossary of ballet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fwɛ.te/, /fwe.te/

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Participle

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

1. past participle of fouetter

Adjective

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

1. whipped

Further reading

• “fouetté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.