Pirouette vs Silhouette - What's the difference?
pirouette | silhouette |
A whirling or turning on the toes in dancing, primarily in ballet.
The whirling about of a horse.
To perform a pirouette ; to whirl on the toes, like a dancer.
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, passage=[...] I came down like a sack of coals. The pulse was rapid, the blood pressure high, and for awhile the Blue Room pirouetted about me like an adagio dancer.}}
An illustrated outline filled in with a solid color(s), usually only black, and intended to represent the shape of an object without revealing any other visual details; a similar appearance produced when the object being viewed is situated in relative darkness with brighter lighting behind it; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.
To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette.
English eponyms
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As verbs the difference between pirouette and silhouette
is that pirouette is while silhouette is .pirouette
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(pirouett)External links
* (Glossary of ballet) * ----silhouette
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(wikipedia silhouette)Noun
(en noun)- I could see a silhouette of a figure looking out from the window, but I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman.
