英语词汇“courbette”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

courbette

/kʊəˈbɛt

noun

(In classical riding) a movement in which the horse performs a series of jumps on the hind legs without the forelegs touching the ground.Not knowing a pesade from a pirouette or a courbette from a capriole, I was seduced by the riders’ dashing livery of black boots, white tights, brown dress coat and gilded bicorn hat....

They then graduate to the ‘aerial exercises’, with pesades, levades, courbettes and caprioles.
In different occasions they had shows where the horses performed courbettes on a volte or in a cross, capriols were performed and many more complicated movements were involved.

Origin

Mid 17th century: French, from Italian corvetta 'little curve', based on Latin curvus 'curved'.

单词	courbette
释义	courbette /kʊəˈbɛt / noun (In classical riding) a movement in which the horse performs a series of jumps on the hind legs without the forelegs touching the ground.Not knowing a pesade from a pirouette or a courbette from a capriole, I was seduced by the riders’ dashing livery of black boots, white tights, brown dress coat and gilded bicorn hat.... They then graduate to the ‘aerial exercises’, with pesades, levades, courbettes and caprioles. In different occasions they had shows where the horses performed courbettes on a volte or in a cross, capriols were performed and many more complicated movements were involved. Origin Mid 17th century: French, from Italian corvetta 'little curve', based on Latin curvus 'curved'.
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