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What does divertissement mean?

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Noun
  1. An entertaining diversion.
  2. (ballet) A short ballet within a larger work, usually providing a break from the main plot.
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Okay, I'll admit, Norwich entertained me on that little divertissement.
The current staging has muddled storytelling, with some bizarre divertissement dances and a confusing switch in the hero's identity.
It's all on display for our divertissement in Twentieth Century Eightball.
The Tarantella was originally not part of the Grand Pas de Deux, it was intended as a divertissement or National Dance in Act One.
However, one can't really call this great drama, but a divertissement.
Comparing them and their comrades to booted divertissement dancers in nineteenth-century ballet is out of the question.

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