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tour jeté
[ French toor zhuh-tey ]
noun
Ballet.
plural tours jetés
- a movement in which the dancer leaps from one foot, makes a half turn in the air, and lands on the other foot.
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Origin of tour jeté1
< French: literally, flung turn
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Watching a 300- or 400-pound bear execute a light-footed cousin to a tour jeté snaps your head around.
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“She can sing like a dream and do a tour jeté and all that, but she’s a real goonie. At the end of the day, Sutton has a great time, and she makes sure everybody else does as well.”
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I’d be like, ‘That’s a tour jeté — I’ll put my arms up like this’ — and he’d say: ‘Yes! That’s exactly what I was going for.’
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“And a BEEP, and a BA-ba-BA and a tour jeté and you’re fabulous, you’re marvelous, relax.”
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It resembles a tour jeté in ballet and is the first jump people usually learn.
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