2. Verb. (third-person singular of pirouette) ¹
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Definition of Pirouettes
1. pirouette [v] - See also: pirouette
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pirouettes
Literary usage of Pirouettes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curb, Snaffle, and Spur: A Method of Training Young Horses for the Cavalry by Edward Lowell Anderson (1894)
"... CHAPTER V. REVERSED pirouettes, LOW pirouettes, BENDING HEAD IN ACTION.
- TRAVERS AND RENVERS. exercises described in this chapter may A be conducted in ..."
2. Equitation by Henry L. de Bussigny (1922)
"CHAPTER XIII BACKING AND THE pirouettes THE pirouettes are revolutions of one
end of the horse's body about the other. In the direct pirouette, ..."
3. Modern Horsemanship: Three Schools of Riding : an Original Method of by Edward Lowell Anderson (1889)
"LOW pirouettes—MOVEMENTS UPON TWO PATHS- WHEELS AND HALF-WHEELS—TRAVERS AND REN
VERS—REVERSED pirouettes. IN the old High School of horsemanship ..."
4. Modern Horsemanship: Three Schools of Riding : an Original Method of by Edward Lowell Anderson (1886)
"LO W pirouettes—TRA VERSING AT THE WALK—DEMI-VOLTES. THE rider will make the
horse perform a low pirouette to the right (that is, a movement of the forehand ..."
5. On Horseback, in the School and on the Road by Edward Lowell Anderson (1882)
"... traversing may best be performed, horses are brought to traverse at the gallop,
both as a school movement and to prepare them for voltes and pirouettes. ..."
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