Definition of "danseur" []

• A man who is a ballet dancer. (noun)

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• "The leaps in logic here would do a premier danseur proud."
• "As I followed this acclaimed danseur around his elaborate fire-castle, he explained to me how he left Howard University in mid-1960s and bee-lined to the Big Apple in search of a dance, a dollar, and a dream."
• "(My Patrick was premier danseur at the Paris Opera and I danced with American Ballet Theatre in New York and so we met through our careers.)"