[…]like what?—like the most beautiful pirouette by [Marie] Taglioni, let us say.
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Pirouette
//ˌpɪ.ɹəˈwɛt//
Synonyms for "pirouette" (43 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (21)
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Translations
33 translations across 18 languages.
Armenian
2 entries- ոտնապտույտ noun (whirling or turning on the toes)
- պիրուետ noun (whirling or turning on the toes)
Bulgarian
1 entries- пирует noun (whirling or turning on the toes)
Danish
2 entries- piruet noun (whirling or turning on the toes)
- piruet noun (the whirling about of a horse)
Finnish
3 entries- piruetti noun (whirling or turning on the toes)
- piruetti noun (the whirling about of a horse)
- tehdä piruetti verb (to perform a pirouette)
French
1 entries- pirouette noun (whirling or turning on the toes)
German
1 entries- Pirouette noun (whirling or turning on the toes)
Hungarian
4 entries- ajaktámasz noun (a wooden mouthpiece assembly or lip rest)
- piruett noun (whirling or turning on the toes)
- piruett noun (the whirling about of a horse)
- piruett noun (a wooden mouthpiece assembly or lip rest)
Korean
1 entries- 피루엣 noun (whirling or turning on the toes)
Māori
1 entries- huri hīteki noun (whirling or turning on the toes)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- piruett noun (whirling or turning on the toes)
- piruett noun (the whirling about of a horse)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- piruett noun (whirling or turning on the toes)
- piruett noun (the whirling about of a horse)
Polish
3 entries- piruet noun (whirling or turning on the toes)
- piruet noun (the whirling about of a horse)
- zakręcić piruet verb (to perform a pirouette)
Portuguese
3 entries- pirueta noun (whirling or turning on the toes)
- pirueta noun (the whirling about of a horse)
- fazer pirueta (uma) verb (to perform a pirouette)
Romanian
1 entries- piruetă noun (whirling or turning on the toes)
Russian
1 entries- пируэ́т noun (whirling or turning on the toes)
Spanish
2 entries- pirueta noun (whirling or turning on the toes)
- piruetear verb (to perform a pirouette)
Swedish
2 entries- piruett noun (whirling or turning on the toes)
- piruett noun (the whirling about of a horse)
Turkish
1 entries- dönüş noun (whirling or turning on the toes)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
But the Emperor’s friend covered himself with glory, for he danced everything, whether he knew it or not, and introduced impromptu pirouettes when the figures bewildered him..
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"Serious as cognitohazard." Lillihammer danced down the corridor towards them, doing little pirouettes and leaping from toe to toe. "Reuben Wirth no longer exists. Gonna have to get Forsythe to do that brain scan to make sure I'm clean, but otherwise yeah. Poof."
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There is no west, the sun doesn't rise / No, the sun never rests / As the Earth leans into its forever pirouette
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