Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of pirouette
nounpirouetting (plural pirouettings)
plural pirouettings
- The act of turning a pirouette.
He used to seat you on the piano and then, with vehement gestures and pirouettings, would argue the case. Not one word of the speech did you understand.
1887, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, History of Woman Suffrage
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