pointe

/French pwant/US // French pwɛ̃t //UK // (pɔɪnt) //

尖顶,尖头,指点,尖峰时刻

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural pointes [French pwant]. /French pwɛ̃t/. Ballet.
- : the tip of the toe.
- : a position on the extreme tips of the toes.

I had quit ballet when we got to pointe shoes because it was too hard, and I was a decent swimmer but not a great one, and so on.
One or two, it seemed to me, were actually still tiptoeing “en pointe.”
After a long paddle of five or six hours we arrived at Pointe des Monts, where rough weather obliged us to put ashore.
He woke from it with a vigor and freshness that surprised him, and found the train pulling into the station at Pointe Levis.
Como itself is the head centre for this part of the lake region, but we used it only as a pointe de dpart.
These harsh words—harsh barking of the shepherd dog—spread an unseen consternation in Grande Pointe.
He glanced around condescendingly upon the people of Grande Pointe.