Word Meanings - FIGURANTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A female figurant; esp., a ballet girl.

FEMALE
A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
FIGURANTE
A female figurant; esp., a ballet girl.
FIGURANT
One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part.
BALLET
A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers. (more info) 1. An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women.
FEMALE FERN
a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
FEMALE RHYMES
double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. Note: A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree