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Pirouette   /pˌɪruˈɛ/   Listen
Pirouette

verb
(past & past part. pirouetted; pres. part. pirouetting)
1.
Do a pirouette, usually as part of a dance.





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"Pirouette" Quotes from Famous Books



... or a cane is held upright on the floor by pressing on the top of it with the forefinger. The player is then required to release his hold, to pirouette rapidly, and snatch the umbrella before it ...
— Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium • Jessie H. Bancroft
... marked the time by a series of emphatic bangs; Mac obeyed orders as promptly as if his life depended on it; and, after several narrow escapes at exciting moments, Rose had the satisfaction of being steered safely down the room and landed with a grand pirouette at the bottom. Steve applauded, and Mac, much elated, exclaimed with artless candor: "There really is a sort of inspiration about you, Rose. I always detested dancing before, but now, do you ...
— Rose in Bloom - A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" • Louisa May Alcott
... transferring the seat of imagination from the head to the heart, and causing it to exhibit the wainscot in a pirouette, and the floor in an ague, is highly Shakesperesque, and, as the Courier is made to say at page 3 of the Opinions, "is worthy of the best days of that noble school of dramatic literature in which Mr. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, September 5, 1841 • Various


Words linked to "Pirouette" :   pivot, swivel, twisting, twirl, spin, ballet, whirl, concert dance, twist


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