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Exactly 12 months later, Roan stood onstage Sunday afternoon at the Outside Lands festival as pop’s biggest new star: a redheaded dynamo in a blue-sequined majorette’s uniform teaching an audience in the tens of thousands how to do a dance that everyone already seemed to know. Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024 Eres twist majorette belted strapless swimsuit $630 NET-A-PORTER Eres never gets it wrong and this bandeau one-piece with a waist rope detail is no different. Kerry Pieri, Vogue, 22 June 2024 Brianna Bursley is a majorette dancer for the East High School band. Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 7 Apr. 2023 This was in the weeks following the high-profile killing of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, a high school band majorette who had performed at President Barack Obama’s inauguration shortly before her death. Annie Sweeney, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2021 See all Example Sentences for majorette 

Word History

First Known Use

1940, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of majorette was in 1940

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“Majorette.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/majorette. Accessed 29 Dec. 2024.

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