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▪ I. capriole, n.|ˈkæprɪəʊl|
Also 6 capreall, 7 capreol, caprioll(e, (caprel), 7–8 capriol.
[a. F. capriole (now cabriole) ‘a caper’, or ad. It. capriola ‘a fawn, a kid, a young hind; also, a capriole or caper in dancing, also a Capriole or Goat's leap that cunning riders teach their horses’ (Florio), dim. of capra she-goat:—L. capra: cf. caprea, capreolus, applied to wild goats, etc.]
1. A leap or caper, as in dancing.
1594Davies Orchestra in Arb. Garner V. 40 With lofty turns and caprioles in the air. 1630B. Jonson Chloridia Wks. (1692) 657/2 Ixion..does nothing but cut capreols, fetch friskals, and lead lavoltaes with the Lamiæ. 1760Foote Minor i. (1781) 15 Italy [has] equip'd him with capriols and cantatas. 1832–4De Quincey Caesars (1862) IX. 107 All possible evolutions of caprioles and pirouettes.
fig.1599Marston Sco. Villanie iii. ii. 225 His heeles doe caper..His very soule, his intellectual Is nothing but a mincing capreall. a1670Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 326 In the Capreols of our own fancy. 1852Hawthorne Blithedale Rom. ix, Permitting no caprioles of fancy.
2. Horsemanship. A high leap made by a horse without advancing, the hind legs being jerked out together at the height of the leap.
c1605Montgomerie Flyting 509 While ky kest caprels behind with their heeles. 1617Markham Caval. ii. 239 That sault which..Italians call Caprioll, and wee heere in England the Goates leape. a1634Randolph Poems, Thy Pegasus, in his admir'd careere Curvets no capreols of nonsence here. 1814Scott Wav. viii, The occasional caprioles which his charger exhibited. 1884E. L. Anderson Horsemanship ii. xvii. 153 The Capriole, the most vigorous of all the school movements.
3. A kind of head-dress worn by ladies.
1756Connoisseur No. 112 (1774) IV. 58 The milliner told me..that the name of this ornament..was a Capriole or Cabriole. 1864in Webster.
▪ II. capriole, v.|ˈkæprɪəʊl|
[f. prec. n., or directly from It. capriolare ‘to caper, to capriole’ (Florio).]
intr. To leap, skip, caper. Also said of horses (and their riders); and fig.
1580Sidney, etc. Ps. cxiv. (R.) Hillocks, why capreold ye, as wanton by their dammes We capreoll see the lusty lambs. 1690Crowne Eng. Frier iii. 20 If you had been starv'd you wou'd not have caprioll'd with your witty conceits. 1788Dibdin Mus. Tour xc. 365 Leap, skip, and pound would poor Ap Hugh, And capriole, and caper too. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. (1857) I. i. vii. x. 220 Rascality, caprioling on horses from the Royal Stud.
Hence capriˈoling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1628Sir R. Le Grys tr. Barclay's Argenis 41 To have their stables full..of capreoling Horses. 1821De Quincey Wks. (1863) XIII. 121 The wild..dancing, waltzing, caprioling..of the chamois. 1824Scott Redgauntlet let. xii, In the midst of her exuberant caprioling.
▪ III. capriole
obs. var. of capreole. |