En pointe means balanced on the very tips of the toes. Dance en pointe.
It needs years of strength first, and no dancer goes en pointe before about eleven. The shoe has a hard box at the front, and the foot rather than the shoe does the work.
1adverben pointeBalanced on the very tips of the toes.
“She had been dancing en pointe for six years by then.”
en pointe is a manner.
French
en pointe
English, today
en pointe
Borrowed from French en pointe.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Dance