an artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.-the company of persons who perform the ballet.-a light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the elizabethan madrigal composers.-a bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.