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cabriole

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Noun
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cab=ri=ole

CIDE DICTIONARY

cabriolen. [F. See Cabriolet, and cf. Capriole.].
     A curvet; a leap. See Capriole.  [1913 Webster]
    "The cabrioles which his charger exhibited."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cabriole, n. a kind of curved leg characteristic of Queen Anne and Chippendale furniture.

Etymology
F f. cabrioler, caprioler f. It. capriolare to leap in the air; from the resemblance to a leaping animal's foreleg: see CAPRIOLE

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