caracole
Americannoun
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caracoles
plural
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a half turn executed by a horse and rider.
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Rare. a winding staircase.
verb (used without object)
noun
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dressage a half turn to the right or left
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a spiral staircase
verb
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Etymology
Origin of caracole
1650–60; < French < Spanish caracol snail, spiral shell or stair, turning movement (of a horse)
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He began to rear and caracole as if he were about to suffer transformation into a colt.
From Time Magazine Archive
The crude might of the queen was transformed into refined power, restrained and directed by a system of sparkling levers; the pawns grew cleverer; the knights stepped forth with a Spanish caracole .
From Time Magazine Archive
The discomfiture of the procession was quite a delightful entertainment for him, and he made his little mule caracole about in the hope of an encore.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Evariste Regis Huc
Fifty paces ahead he pulled up and let his horse caracole.
From The Strange Story of Rab R?by by M?r J?kai
Most of the mansions, however, squat ephemerally upon the soil, no cellar to them, and no staircase, the total fragile box ready to bounce and caracole should the wind drive hard enough.
From The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories by Owen Wister
The waiter prodded the table to try caracoles, or snails, eaten by pushing a toothpick into the shell and dragging out the body.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2011
But for $20 she swindled out of the warden as she was leaving her latest penitentiary she is penniless, but she caracoles into town as the Countess of Auburn.
From Time Magazine Archive
Angel and I followed closely with occasional caracoles, and cavortings, and scornful blowings through the nostrils.
From Explorers of the Dawn by Christopher Morley
The little girl caracoles sedately, clad in a riding habit, and armed with a crop.
From Light by Fitzwater Wray
Still, whatever her caracoles or escapades, they caused Florimel nothing but amusement, for her confidence in Malcolm -- that he could do whatever he believed he could -- was unbounded.
From The Marquis of Lossie by George MacDonald
Above Beirut's Place des Canons last week R.A.F. planes roared and caracoled.
From Time Magazine Archive
In front of it, as the week went on, a thousand horses paraded, galloped, caracoled — black and grey, hunter and hackney, carriage-horse and teamster.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shadow’s mount caracoled away from it, and Shadow stroked its neck and told it not to be afraid.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
Shot-bags, flasks, and powder-horns were distributed about, while three brace of dogs caracoled round the room, and increased the uproar.
From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Charles James Lever
Every third man in that great company which splashed and caracoled through the fords of Lochar, was a William, a James, or an Archibald Douglas.
From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards
Of many existing causes for alarm, one minor one has been Author Louis Golding's caracoling cleverness, which has frightened away more than a few cautious readers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Prancing, caracoling or stiffly reined in, they constitute a lexicon of equine movement that Western art could hardly rival for another 1400 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
No doubt, my splendid Arab, caracoling as if he had not been out of the stable for a week, came in for a large share of the admiration.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid
As soon as she remarks that a man has a hobby-horse, she makes him ride it, puts it through all its paces, caracoling, leaping, haute école.
From Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai
Ah, how beautiful it was in those days—our Bois de Boulogne, with the officers caracoling in the Avenue des Acacias, admired by our beautiful society women!
From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt
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