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Capriole   Listen
noun
Capriole  n.  
1.
(Man.) A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height of the leap.
2.
A leap or caper, as in dancing. "With lofty turns and caprioles."


verb
Capriole  v. i.  To perform a capriole.





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"Capriole" Quotes from Famous Books



... smiles. Sneyd is delighted with the four volumes of Evenings at Home, which we have just got, and has pitched upon the best stories, which he does not, like M. Dalambert, spoil in the reading—"Perseverance against Fortune," "The Price of a Victory," and "Capriole." We were reading an account of the pinna the other day, and very much regretted that your pinna's brown silk tuft had been eaten by the mice—what will they not eat?—they have eaten my thimble case! I am sorry to say that, from these last accounts of the pinna ...
— The Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth, Vol. 1 • Maria Edgeworth


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