curvetting

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A form of curvet — Of a horse or, by extension, another animal: to leap about, to frolic.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of curvet

    Mounted on a snow-white horse, whose trappings of scarlet and gold swept the ground, and whose curvetting served but to show the graceful management of the rider;...

    1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 108
nouncurvetting (plural curvettings)

plural curvettings

  1. alternativeAlternative form of curveting.
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