BAL'LET, n. 20 1. A kind of dance; an interlude; a comic dance, consisting of a series of several airs, with different movements, representing some subject or action.2. A kind of dramatic poem, representing some fabulous action or subject, in which several persons appear and recite things, under the name of some deity or personage.In heraldry, ballets or balls, a bearing in coats of arms, denominated according to their color, bezants, plates, hurts, &c.
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