Curveting
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Curveting is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of curvet.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of curvet.
More Meanings
- The motion of a horse or other animal that curvets.
- Caper, frisking, often with a nuance of flirtation. (of a person)
Example Sentences
the curvetings of a horse
And when they were back again going through the figure, they made a real pantomime of it, with coquettish smiles and curvettings on her part, roguish glances and bold advances on his.
One humiliation had succeeded another—the false smiles of the market sellers, the curvetings and oglings of the barmaids with whom his father flirted, the compliments and encouraging words of his father's friends.
Word Forms
- curvetting
- curvetings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include vaulting, corvetting, curvation, curving, curvative, curvity.
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