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Noun [English]

IPA: /kɜːˈvɛt/ [UK], /kɚˈvɛt/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-curvet.wav Forms: curvets [plural]
Etymology: From Italian corvetta, diminutive of corva, an early form of curva (“curve”), from Latin curva, feminine of curvus (“bent, curved”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|it|corvetta}} Italian corvetta, {{der|en|la|curva}} Latin curva Head templates: {{en-noun}} curvet (plural curvets)
  1. A particular leap in which a horse raises both forelegs at once, equally advanced, and, as the forelegs are falling, raises the hind legs, so that all the legs are in the air at once. Categories (topical): Horse gaits
    Sense id: en-curvet-en-noun-wGLWL9T8 Disambiguation of Horse gaits: 31 5 16 18 11 18 1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 3 6 9 25 4 1 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 43 6 5 9 32 4 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 56 4 4 7 25 3 1
  2. A prank; a frolic.
    Sense id: en-curvet-en-noun-Q~pQNC~0

Verb [English]

IPA: /kɜːˈvɛt/ [UK], /kɚˈvɛt/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-curvet.wav Forms: curvets [present, singular, third-person], curveting [participle, present], curvetting [participle, present], curveted [participle, past], curveted [past], curvetted [participle, past], curvetted [past]
Etymology: From Italian corvetta, diminutive of corva, an early form of curva (“curve”), from Latin curva, feminine of curvus (“bent, curved”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|it|corvetta}} Italian corvetta, {{der|en|la|curva}} Latin curva Head templates: {{en-verb|past2=curvetted|pres_ptc2=curvetting}} curvet (third-person singular simple present curvets, present participle curveting or curvetting, simple past and past participle curveted or curvetted)
  1. (intransitive) Of a horse or, by extension, another animal: to leap about, to frolic. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-curvet-en-verb-OzcKZVuV
  2. (transitive) To cause to leap about, dart or jump. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-curvet-en-verb--KWAa31r
  3. (of a bird) To fly or swim with darting movements.
    Sense id: en-curvet-en-verb-JsA~6hxq
  4. (figuratively) (of a person) To prance; to caper, frolic. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-curvet-en-verb-Dst4CNXC
  5. (figuratively) (of an object) To jump, skip, shake. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-curvet-en-verb-xvQaR5ev

Verb [Latin]

Head templates: {{head|la|verb form}} curvet
  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of curvō Tags: active, form-of, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person Form of: curvō
    Sense id: en-curvet-la-verb-MER-fkST Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 6”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:",
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          "ref": "1942, Wallace Stevens, “Notes toward a Supreme Fiction: It Must Change”, in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, published 1954, page 397:",
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          "text": "It is not possible, many critics allege, that Juana Inés could have lived in the whirlwind of the court for five years […] and have emerged unscathed. I have already said that it would be absurd to discount the possibility of some curvetting and amorous play.",
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          "text": "[…] I could no more travel the same Path, again and again, than I could have Patience to mount a managed Horse, in the Riding-House, and curvet it in the same Spot, for three Hours together.",
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        {
          "ref": "1826, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations, London: Henry Colburn, Conversation 9, pp. 189-190:",
          "text": "[…] the upright leaden spout, curveting its liquid filament into [the well], is merely a representation of what the gardener himself, if called upon, could do better and more abundantly.",
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        "To cause to leap about, dart or jump."
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        "(transitive) To cause to leap about, dart or jump."
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          "ref": "1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 6”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:",
          "text": "[…] flights of small, low-flying brown doves chased one another to and fro, and bee-eaters, emerald-green, curvetted like slow swallows.",
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          "ref": "1942, Wallace Stevens, “Notes toward a Supreme Fiction: It Must Change”, in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, published 1954, page 397:",
          "text": "The west wind was the music, the motion, the force / To which the swans curveted, a will to change, / A will to make iris frettings on the blank.",
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          "ref": "2011, Guy Vanderhaeghe, chapter 2, in A Good Man, McClelland & Stewart:",
          "text": "Bank swallows are skimming above the stream, snatching insects, curvetting, rocketing up against the dying light.",
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          "ref": "1943, Sinclair Lewis, chapter V, in Gideon Planish, London: Jonathan Cape, page 44:",
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          "ref": "1988, Octavio Paz, chapter 8, in Margaret Sayers Peden, transl., Sor Juana or, The Traps of Faith, Harvard University Press, page 100:",
          "text": "It is not possible, many critics allege, that Juana Inés could have lived in the whirlwind of the court for five years […] and have emerged unscathed. I have already said that it would be absurd to discount the possibility of some curvetting and amorous play.",
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          "ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 63”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:",
          "text": "[…] you must know that when the second iron is thrown overboard, it thenceforth becomes a dangling, sharp-edged terror, skittishly curvetting about both boat and whale, entangling the lines, or cutting them, and making a prodigious sensation in all directions.",
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          "ref": "1981, Tanith Lee, Delusion's Master, New York: Daw Books, Prologue, page 30:",
          "text": "The earth shook itself like an animal on whose back a predator has lodged. It spasmed, curvetted, tossed and writhed, to throw that malignity from its shoulders.",
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        "(of an object) To jump, skip, shake."
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