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# tutu

«tutu» in Mova's school dictionary: **a short, stiff, frilly skirt that sticks out, worn by…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a tutu, tutus)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A tutu is a short, stiff, frilly skirt that sticks out, worn by ballet dancers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tutu/#m1)

2) A tutu is also any light, puffy, net skirt that children wear for dressing up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tutu/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, PE and dance lessons, the tutu shows ballet: girls and sometimes boys dancing «Swan Lake» or «The Nutcracker». In everyday life it appears at dance shows, fancy-dress parties and fun runs, where people wear tutus as a joke. Phrases: «a pink tutu», «ballet shoes and a tutu», «in a tutu».

### examples

- She wore a white tutu for the ballet show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tutu/#x1)
- My little sister put on her sparkly tutu and twirled round the kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tutu/#x2)
- The dancers' tutus stuck out like plates. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tutu/#x3)
- For the charity fun run, Dad wore a pink tutu. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tutu/#x4)
- The tutu is made of many layers of stiff net. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tutu/#x5)
- In «Swan Lake» the swans dance in white tutus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tutu/#x6)

### note

Plural: tutus. Countable. The word is French. Say «TOO-too». Do not confuse with «Tutu» as a surname, as in Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa (a name).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tutu» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tutu/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.