pirouette
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Maybe there really was something a little more masculine about them, I thought, before reaching defiantly for a Pirouette and breathing through it like a straw, as one does.
From Slate • Sep. 5, 2012
One evening, as Mademoiselle Saget was peering out of her garret casement, she recognised Quenu's shadow on the frosted glass of the "cabinet" window facing the Rue Pirouette.
From The Fat and the Thin by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
She reached the corner of the Rue Pirouette just as the commissary of police was re-entering the side passage of the Quenu-Gradelles' house.
From The Fat and the Thin by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
The commissary himself, however, gave the alarm to the neighbourhood by paying a domiciliary visit to the Mehudins' abode in the Rue Pirouette.
From The Fat and the Thin by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
When La Normande at last turned the corner of the Rue Pirouette the excitement was so great that the women held their breath.
From The Fat and the Thin by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
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