coryphée

[kawr-uh-fey, kor-; Fr. kaw-ree-fey]

cor·y·phée

[kawr-uh-fey, kor-; Fr. kaw-ree-fey]
noun, plural cor·y·phées [-feyz; Fr. -fey] .
a member of a ballet company who dances usually as part of a small group and who ranks below the soloists.

Origin:
1820–30; < French < Latin coryphaeus coryphaeus
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Coryphée is always a great word to know.
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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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coryphée (ˌkɒrɪˈfeɪ)
 
n
a leading dancer of a corps de ballet
 
[C19: from French, from Latin coryphaeuscoryphaeus]

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