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

Translations

type of shoe

• Basque: dantzari-oinetako
• Czech: cvičky f pl
• Finnish: ballerina (fi), ballerinakenkä

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ballettsko m

• Russian: бале́тка (ru) f (balétka)
• Spanish: bailarina

Further reading

• ballet flat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia