capriole
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French capriole, from Italian capriola.
Noun edit
capriole (plural caprioles)
- 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.
- A leap or caper, as in dancing.
- 1595, John Davies, Orchestra:
- With lofty turns and caprioles.
- 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter 3, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
- When Dandy Dinmont, after executing two or three caprioles, and cutting the Highland-fling, by way of ridicule of his wife's anxiety, at last deigned to sit down, and commit his round, black, shaggy bullet of a head to her inspection.
Verb edit
capriole (third-person singular simple present caprioles, present participle caprioling, simple past and past participle caprioled)
- (intransitive) To leap; to caper.
- (transitive) To cause (one's mounted horse) to perform a capriole.
- 1838, Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott:
- Brawny fighters, all cased in buff and iron, their hearts too sheathed in oak and triple brass, caprioled their huge war-horses, shook their death-doing spears; and went forth in the most determined manner, nothing doubting.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Noun edit
capriole f (plural caprioles)
Italian edit
Noun edit
capriole f