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
The two other horses seemed to know no other pace than the gallop, though they performed many an eccentric curvette as they went along.
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