▪ I. curveting, curvetting, vbl. n.
(ˈkɜːvɪtɪŋ, kɜːˈvɛtɪŋ)
[-ing1.]
The action of the verb curvet, q.v.
| 1784 tr. Beckford's Vathek (1868) 55 The unwieldy curvetting of these poor beasts. 1801 Strutt Sports & Past. iii. v. 203 Imitating the curvetings and motions of a horse. 1840 Barham Ingol. Leg., Witches' Frolic, Such lofty curvetting And grand pirouetting. |
▪ II. ˈcurveting, curˈvetting, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That curvets: see the verb.
| 1599 Marston Sco. Villanie iii. xi. 228 His very intellect Is naught but a curuetting Sommerset. 1750 Wesley Wks. (1872) II. 185 A fine curvetting horse. 1848 Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 490 Rushed through the drawn swords and curvetting horses. 1878 M. A. Brown Nadeschda 25 On his curveting charger's back. |