| 单词 | cabriole |
| 释义 | cabriole /kab"ree ohl'/; Fr. /kann brddee awl"/, n. , pl. cabrioles /-ohlz'/; Fr. /-awl"/. 1. Furniture. a curved, tapering leg curving outward at the top and inward farther down so as to end in a round pad, the semblance of an animal's paw, or some other feature: used esp. in the first half of the 18th century. 2. Ballet. a leap in which one leg is raised in the air and the other is brought up to beat against it. [1775-85; < F: leap, caper; so called because modeled on leg of a capering animal (see CAPRIOLE); b by influence of cabri kid ( << OPr) and kindred words] |
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