Etymology

Cabriole leg

Today it means: In furniture design, a curved leg with outcurved knee and incurved ankle. A signature design element of the Queen Anne style of furniture, the cabriole predates both 18th century England and Italy. The style originated in Italy and is a conventionalized representation of the rear leg of a leaping goat. Full definition →

French cabriole ← Italian capriola
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The story

  1. Italian · derived fromcapriola
  2. French · borrowed fromcabriole“goat's leap”
  3. English todayCabriole leg

From French cabriole (“goat's leap”), from Italian capriola.

Words from the same roots

Frenchcabriole all →

cabriole

Italiancapriola all →

capriole

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.