caracole
noun
a half turn executed by a horse and rider.
caracoles
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pluralof caracole.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
The market-lady caracoles around, and leads Browne to infer that his conduct is not approved, from her festooning that gentleman's eyes with heavy lines of crape.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 by Various
Thus!" he shouted, waving his hand to Amyas, between his curvets and caracoles, "did my illustrious grandfather exhibit to the Paynim emperor the prowess of a Castilian cavalier!
From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley
Fialin had the arrogant air of a man who caracoles before a crime.
From The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo
