curvette
Americannoun
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Despite the materials shortages of World War II, Gossard kept its sales up by such new products as the high-backed "curvette" for women war workers, to ease the strain of long hours in factories.
From Time Magazine Archive
Long and vigorously did Dan Sheeny advance, retire, curvette, and caper.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 18, 1841 by Various
The two other horses seemed to know no other pace than the gallop, though they performed many an eccentric curvette as they went along.
From Michael Strogoff Or, The Courier of the Czar by Verne, Jules
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