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a fluffy halo of tulle engineering hours of agony into ten seconds of weightless grace
means A short, stiff skirt of layered net or tulle worn by a ballet dancer, sticking out from the hips.
from From French 'tutu', a playful nursery alteration of 'cucu', itself a childish reduplication of 'cul' (backside) — so the word cheekily names the dancer's behind, the very thing the skirt frames and lifts. It entered English from French ballet vocabulary in the late 19th century.
- layer count
- Classic pancake tutus stack up to sixteen tulle layers
- birth year
- Debuted onstage in Paris around 1832
- name origin
- French baby-talk for backside, cutout
- hidden hoop
- A wire keeps the pancake from drooping flat
- price tag
- Custom company tutus can cost thousands of dollars
misty copeland's tutu — american ballet theatre prima ballerina, first black woman in leading roles, performs in classical tutus
swan lake tutu — iconic romantic tutu worn in tchaikovsky's 1877 ballet, white layered design standard across world productions
paris opera tutu — parisian ballet company's signature classical tutus, worn in degas paintings from 1870s-1880s