Parisian petit rat

But she had been so pretty in the weaving of those delicate spells, in the dreamy performance of her enchantments and duties! On certain adventurous evenings, in Beardsley, I also had her dance for me with the promise of some treat or gift, and although these routine leg-parted leaps of hers were more like those of a football cheerleader than like the languorous and jerky motions of a Parisian petit rat, the rhythms of her not quite nubile limbs had given me pleasure.

Trích đoạn chương 20, phần II, Lolita.

Theo The Annotated Lolita: petit rat: a young ballet student at the Paris Opera (ages nine to fourteen).