fouetté

UK/ˈfwɛteɪ/UK/fwɛˈteɪ/

noun

A ballet move in which either the body or the working leg is whipped around forcefully.

OriginFrench fouetté →
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Meanings

nounfouetté (plural fouettés)

plural fouettés

  1. balletA ballet move in which either the body or the working leg is whipped around forcefully.

    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.

    2023, Brandon Taylor, The Late Americans, Jonathan Cape, page 143

Origin

  1. Frenchfouetté
  2. Frenchfouetté
  3. Englishfouetté

Borrowed from French fouetté (“whipped”).

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Translations

German Fouetté
  • Fouettéballet move
Swedish fouetté
  • fouettéballet move

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with fouetté

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Cite this entry
APA

fouetté. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fouett%C3%A9

MLA

“fouetté.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fouett%C3%A9. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fouetté,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fouett%C3%A9.

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