Ballet (pronounce bal-lay)
. A theatrical representation of some adventure or intrigue by pantomime and dancing. Baltazariʹni, director of music to Catherine deʹ Medici, was the inventor of modern ballets.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.