ballet flat

English

Ballet flats in various colors on display in a shoe shop.

Noun

ballet flat (plural ballet flats)

1. A type of women's flat with a very low heel, thin sole, and round toe.
   • 2007, Alex Richards, Back Talk, Flux (2007), →ISBN, page 188:

     She kicked off her silver ballet flats and stretched out her toes like a cat.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ballet flat.

Synonyms

• dolly shoe
• ballet pump
• ballerina
• ballerina shoe

Translations

type of shoe

• Basque: dantzari-oinetako
• Czech: cvičky f pl
• Danish: balletsko c
• Dutch: ballerina (nl) f, flatje (nl)
• Finnish: ballerina (fi), ballerinakenkä
• French: ballerine (fr) f
• German: Ballerina (de) f
• Greek: μπαλαρίνες (el) (balarínes)
• Italian: ballerina (it) f

• Lombard: ballerina
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ballettsko m

• Polish: balerina (pl) f, balerinka (pl) f
• Portuguese: sabrina f, sapatilha (pt) f
• Russian: бале́тка (ru) f (balétka)
• Spanish: bailarina f
• Swedish: ballerinaskor
• Ukrainian: балетки (uk) (baletky)
• Vietnamese: giày búp bê

Further reading

• ballet flat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia