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▪ I. curvet, n.|ˈkɜːvɪt, kɜːˈvɛt|
Forms: α. 6 curuetto, 7 corvetto, coruetti, curvetty; β. 6 pl. cooruez, 7 coruet, corvet, corveit, 7–9 curvett, 7– curvet.
[ad. It. corvetta, dim. of corvo, corva, now curvo bent, arched:—L. curvus. Cf. Sp. corveta, F. courbette. Originally stressed on the final, but now very generally on the first syllable: so altered by Todd 1818 from Johnson's curˈvet.]
In the Manège: A leap of a horse in which the fore-legs are raised together and equally advanced, and the hind-legs raised with a spring before the fore-legs reach the ground. (Often used more or less vaguely of any leaping or frisking motion; cf. caracol.)
1575Laneham Let. (1871) 25 To see..the cooragioous attempts..the daungeroous cooruez, the feers encoounterz. 1589Pasquill's Counter-c. 3 O how my Palfrey fetcht me uppe the Curuetto. 1601Shakes. All's Well ii. iii. 299 The bound and high curuet Of Marses fierie steed. 1614Markham Cheap Husb. i. ii. (1668) 27 When your horse can bound perfectly, then you shall teach him the Corvet. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 163 ⁋7 As a sportsman delights the squires..with the curvets of his horse. 1852Kingsley Andromeda 300 As..some colt..at last, in pride of obedience Answers the heel with a curvet.
fig.1645Milton Colast. Wks. (1851) 353 Hee must needs first shew us a curvett of his madnes.
▪ II. curvet, v.|kɜːˈvɛt, ˈkɜːvɪt|
Also 6 coruet, 7 corvet, -bet, curuette, -ete, -eat. Inflected curˈvetted, -ing, and ˈcurveted, -ing.
[ad. It. corvettare ‘to corvet or praunce’, f. corvetta curvet n. Originally always stressed on the final, but now very generally (though less so than the n.) on the first syllable. Todd has ˈcurvet for the n., curˈvet for the vb.; Webster 1828, Smart 1836, have ˈcurvet for vb. as well as n.]
1. intr. Of a horse: To execute a curvet, leap in a curvet. Said also of the horseman.
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 279 Anon he rears upright, corvets and leaps. 1682Shadwell Medal 4 The sprightly Horse y' have seen, Praunce, and curvet, with pleasure to the sight. 1695Motteux St. Olon's Morocco 8 He took a fancy..to Curvet in his Gardens on a fiery Horse. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 445 He may let him sometimes prance and caper and curvet. 1805Scott Last Minstr. iv. xxi, Forced him, with chastened fire, to prance, And, high curvetting, slow advance. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 423 Looking for her as he curvets by. 1866R. M. Ballantyne Shifting Winds vi. (1881) 60 [The] fresh and mettlesome steeds curveted and pranced.
b. trans. To cause to curvet.
1613Wotton in Reliq. Wotton. (1672) 419 Sir R. Drury..corbeteth his Horse before the King's window.
2. transf. To leap about, frisk: also fig.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. ii. 258 Cry holla to the tongue, I prethee: it curuettes vnseasonably. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch. Hen. V, xiv, As were the yeare Beat in a Plott, and Dayes were Curvetting [rime king]. 1860J. P. Kennedy Swallow B. iii. 40 A mischievous imp, who curvets about the house. |