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Jackie Sandler: Sandler's real-life wife, Jackie, portrays Vienna's dance instructor, Monica, who secures the aspiring ballerina a spot at the Paris Opera Ballet School.—Jordana Comiter, People.com, 28 July 2025 Like other artists and workers who depend on their physical ability to work, ballerinas are making pregnancy and parenting support a key part of union contract negotiations.—Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025 Prior to that, the former ballerina costarred in Top Gun: Maverick (2022) and helped lead series like Chicago Justice (2017) and The Good Cop (2018).—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 12 June 2025 The royal added further to her look, wearing a pair of slingback ballerina flats courtesy of Gianvito Rossi and accessorized with a pair of sunglasses by Louis Vuitton, a favorite designer of the royal.—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 10 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for ballerina
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from Italian, "woman who dances professionally or for pleasure," feminine counterpart of ballarino, ballerino "professional dancer, person who loves to dance," from ballare "to dance" (going back to Late Latin ballāre) + -ar-, -er-, extension in nominal derivation + -ino, suffix of occupations (as in postino "mailman," scalpellino "stonemason"), going back to Latin -īnus-ine entry 1 — more at ball entry 3
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