noun, masculine/ba.lɛ/plural: ballets
ballet
Related: ballet à ski, ballet-féerie, ballettomane, balletomane, ballettomanie, balletomanie, corps de ballet, maître de ballet
Borrowed from Italian balletto, diminutive form of ballo (“group dance”) (cognate with Old French bal), from Late Latin ballō (“to dance”). By surface analysis, bal + -et.