The word "pirouette" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb that means to spin around rapidly on the heel of one foot. You can use it when describing an acrobatic or dancing move. For example, "The ballerina gracefully performed a pirouette and ended the routine with a dramatic curtsey."
A split second later and it's gone, whirled away in the next pirouette.
But, as the final pirouette to the knee demonstrates, still in exquisite control.
But without fluency in both languages, it is impossible to tell whether the fault lies with the novelist or the translator.Dance, mercifully, can pirouette across borders with grace.
Pointing to Mr Obama's no-show and the government shutdown, it concluded that his "much touted 'pivot' to Asia feels more like a pirouette with an overemphasis on military engagement".The Chinese press is happy to foster the impression of a power shift, taking the argument beyond South-East Asia.
Is Egypt's new president, Muhammad Morsi, contemplating a similar pirouette?
A picture he tweeted showing him dancing with his wife backstage just before his last, big speech in the leadership contest echoed his father's carefree pirouette at Buckingham Palace behind the back of the Queen.His deliberately vague policy commitments have not hurt the Liberals, who lead opinion polls two years ahead of the next likely general election.
The player could rest his lips on a wooden pirouette into which the reed was inserted and activate the reed without contact in the wind chamber formed in his mouth.
In its basic four-piece form, with flared body, reed, staple, and pirouette (a disk or cylinder that partly covers the reed), it spread rapidly to lands conquered by the Arabs.
Like the oboe, it is conically bored; but its bore, bell, and finger holes are wider, and it has a wooden disk (called a pirouette, on European shawms) that supports the lips and, on Asian instruments, holds them away from the reed.
