cabrioles
- plural of cabriole.
Example Sentences
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But ballet steps — pas de chat, cabrioles, grands fouettés sautés and more — abound; so do Cunningham uses of legs and torso.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2014
He threw a snappy salute and then, breaking free, rocketed through the air in flashing cabrioles that made the audience gasp.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the road, we passed several hundreds of persons in carriages, cabrioles, or walking; all with merry faces, in showy clothes, and adorned with bouquets, on their route to this spot of favourite delight.
From The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Carr, John, Sir
And the almost pert flings and cabrioles of the narrator form a still more obvious and direct Declaration of Independence.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George
