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divertissement

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
divertissement /dɪˈvəːtɪsmənt, ˌdiːvɛːˈtiːsmɒ̃/

▶noun

1 a minor entertainment or diversion.

2 Ballet a short discrete dance within a ballet, intended to display a dancer's technical skill.

– origin C18 (denoting a short ballet): Fr., from divertiss-, divertir, from L. divertere ‘turn in separate ways’.

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