Divertissement vs Divertissementlike - What's the difference?
divertissement | divertissementlike |
An entertaining diversion.
(ballet) A short ballet within a larger work, usually providing a break from the main plot.
* {{quote-news, 2009, January 24, Alastair Macaulay, A Young, Lively Crew From Florida Steps Up and Takes Flight, New York Times
, passage=Patricia Delgado, though taller and paler-skinned, strongly resembles Jeanette, and in Miami they often dance together (in the “Emeralds” pas de trois from “Jewels,” for example, or leading successive divertissements in Balanchine’s “Swan Lake”). }}
Resembling or characteristic of a divertissement.
* 1982 , The New Yorker (volume 57)
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 5, author=Alastair Macaulay, title=Turning 50 With Wit and Youthful Vigor to Spare (So Who Needs Gimmicks?), work=New York Times
, passage=Both Caught and Ms. Tharps In the Upper Room (1986) are new to Pacific Northwest repertory, and whereas Kiss and Caught are slight and divertissementlike , In the Upper Room is an ensemble blockbuster. }}
As a noun divertissement
is an entertaining diversion.As an adjective divertissementlike is
resembling or characteristic of a divertissement.divertissement
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(en adjective)- Her confident, full-bodied playing was well suited to the D-Major Sonata, with its quasi-orchestral textures and long, divertissementlike structure (both of which Mozart surely derived from the keyboard style of JC Bach).
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