[F.; ad. L. coryphæus: see prec.] The chief dancer in a ballet.
1866. Engel, Nat. Mus., vii. 254. Round each set of dancers the people formed a ring, in which the figurantes and coryphées went through their operations.
1869. Daily News, 14 April, 5/5. Men dressed as coryphees, wriggling about like the Arab dancing-girls, to the sound of the native music.
