majorette
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8.1
- noun
- /ˌmædʒəˈrɛt/
:
maestra de ceremonias
- Lined up for roll call were a lot of tiny, athletic-looking cheerleaders and majorettes, chatting perkily to several members of the gymnastics team.
- drum majorette
- majorette baton
- school majorette
Examples
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But the star of the show was Nurse Cumberbatch, who had snatched up a cane and was prancing with it, majorette-style, between the rows of chairs.
Fiction book (1994) -
The parade was tawdry, with fat majorettes in unmatched uniforms and veterans in civilian clothes with legionnaire's caps.
Fiction book (1991) -
I was... I was a majorette!
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A brief but glorious career as a majorette.
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His youngest daughter, who started college this past fall, is a majorette at UTK.
Blog text (18) -
"All of the girls who want to try out to be majorettes," McNeil said, "will meet us outside after class."
Fiction book (1993) -
The drum majorette blows her whistle, and the band falls into formation in the end zone, spaced across in a straight line from fence to fence.
Fiction book (2000) -
When they made me a finalist, all of a sudden I had this image of myself at the grand opening of a Piggly-Wiggly, cutting a ribbon in a red, white, and blue sequined majorette outfit.
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As the majorette led the parade, she captivated the crowd with her impressive baton-twirling skills.
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The school's marching band featured a talented majorette who performed dazzling routines during halftime.
Synonyms
1
5.6
A person who spins a baton in parades and shows
1
7.8
A person who leads a marching band by twirling a baton and dancing
1
6.5
A person who spins a thin stick and does tricks in parades or shows
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word majorette comes from French and mixes major ('leader') with the small ending -ette ('little one'). So it originally meant a 'little leader', which is why a majorette is a girl who leads a marching band or parade by twirling a baton.