What does curveting mean?
Curveting means present participle and gerund of curvet.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
present participle and gerund of curvet.
the curvetings of a horse
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.
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.
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Curveting means present participle and gerund of curvet.
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the curvetings of a horse
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