curvet

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
curvet /kəːˈvɛt/

▶noun a graceful or energetic leap. ▶verb (curvets, curvetting, curvetted or curvets, curveting, curveted) leap gracefully or energetically.

■ (of a horse) perform a courbette.

– origin C16: from Ital. corvetta, dimin. of corva, earlier form of curva ‘a curve’, from L. curvus ‘bent’.

'curvet' also found in these Oxford entries:

cavort

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