curvet

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Elizabeth's Winston, pestered by a swarm of thunder flies, began to curvet alarmingly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tigers walk treadmills, horses curvet superbly and Harry Rittely sits atop seven tables and topples over backwards.

From Time Magazine Archive

How proudly the slender lady sat, allowing her black horse to curvet!

From Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von

With a toss of her mane, that is glossy as jet, With a dance and a prance, and a frolic curvet, She is off! she is stepping superbly away!

From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various

The French called vessels of this size corvettes, from the Italian word corvettore, to leap or bound, from which we have derived the word curvet.

From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by Kingston, William Henry Giles