nonchalant, twirl, baton twirlers, communion, promenade

At a school in California, a group of students, many of them immigrants, are hoping to twirl and promenade their way into the history books.



It was also at four in the afternoon that she had dared to knock, years before, at the door of Ruy da Cámara’s riding school in Lima. It was a cold, pale day in winter; she was 11. The place was deserted. Da Cámara found in front of him a slender child with blonde page-boy hair and blue eyes, dressed in overalls, which she wore as nonchalantly as if she had no other clothes. She handed him a ten-soles note and asked him to give her a lesson. Yes, she added, she knew how to ride a little; she had been given a horse as a present on the day of her first communion.






Glassmakers at work. From left to right, Matt Urban, Lewis Olsen, Eric Meek and Dan Spitzer.Onstage in the Corning Museum GlassLab, four sweat-beaded men in black T-shirts rotated elongated rods — tipped with molten glass hot enough to ignite anything it touched, whether metal, wood or flesh — with the nonchalance of baton twirlers.

promenade

Pronunciation: /ˌprɒməˈnɑːd/  

 /ˌprɒməˈneɪd/  /ˈprɒmənɑːd/  /ˈprɒməneɪd/ 

VERB

[NO OBJECT]

1Take a leisurely public walk, ride, or drive so as to meet or be seen by others:they promenaded along the waterfront

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1.1[WITH OBJECT] Take a promenade through (a place):people began to promenade the streets

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1.2[WITH OBJECT] dated Escort (someone) about a place, especially so as to be seen by others:the governor of Utah promenades the daughter of the Maryland governor

communion

communions

━━ n. 共にすること; 親しい交わり; 霊的な交渉; 宗教団体; （C-） 聖餐（拝受）.
hold communion with oneself　内省する.


nonchalant 
adjective
behaving in a calm manner, often in a way which suggests lack of interest or care:
a nonchalant manner/shrug
twirler
noun [C] (ALSO majorette) US 行進樂隊指揮[C]
a girl who marches as part of a group while spinning a baton (= short metal stick) or throwing it in the air and then catching it

twirl

 ━━ v. くるくる回す［る］, ひね（く）る; 【野】投球する.

twirl [twiddle] one's thumbs　⇒twiddle.
━━ n. 回転; ひね（く）り; （文字の）飾り書き.
twirl・er　━━ n.