vestris

1. 1.

   Italian dancing-master for Louis XVI who was considered the greatest dancer of his day; he was the first to discard the mask in mime (1729-1808)

   SynonymsGaetan Vestris

   Broaderdancer

Other forms of vestris

plural

vestrises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about vestris

What does vestris mean?

vestris means "Italian dancing-master for Louis XVI who was considered the greatest dancer of his day; he was the first to discard the mask in mime (1729-1808)".

How many syllables are in vestris?

vestris has 2 syllables: ve-stris. The stress falls on "ve".

What is another word for vestris?

Close synonyms include Gaetan Vestris. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vestris a common word?

vestris is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.