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pointe

[ French pwant ]

noun

, Ballet.
, plural pointes [pwa, n, t].
  1. the tip of the toe.
  2. a position on the extreme tips of the toes.


pointe

/ pɔɪnt /

noun

  1. ballet the tip of the toe (esp in the phrase on pointes )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pointe1

1820–30; < French: pointe ( du pied ) “tiptoe,” literally, “extremity of the foot”
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pointe1

from French: point
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. on / en pointe, supporting one’s body weight on the extreme tips of the toes: onen pointes.

    dancing on pointe.

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Example Sentences

I had quit ballet when we got to pointe shoes because it was too hard, and I was a decent swimmer but not a great one, and so on.

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One or two, it seemed to me, were actually still tiptoeing “en pointe.”

After a long paddle of five or six hours we arrived at Pointe des Monts, where rough weather obliged us to put ashore.

He woke from it with a vigor and freshness that surprised him, and found the train pulling into the station at Pointe Levis.

Como itself is the head centre for this part of the lake region, but we used it only as a pointe de dpart.

These harsh words—harsh barking of the shepherd dog—spread an unseen consternation in Grande Pointe.

He glanced around condescendingly upon the people of Grande Pointe.

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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