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Capriole

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Noun

1. capriole

(dressage) a vertical jump of a trained horse with a kick of the hind legs at the top of the jump

2. caper, capriole

a playful leap or hop

Verb

3. capriole

perform a capriole, of horses in dressage

4. capriole

perform a capriole, in ballet

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Capriole

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noun
1. dressage
a high upward but not forward leap made by a horse with all four feet off the ground
2. dancing
a leap from bent knees
verb
3. (intransitive)
to perform a capriole

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Capriole

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noun
1. 
a caper; leap
2. 
a type of competitive jump in which a trained horse leaps upward but not forward and kicks its hind legs so that they are nearly parallel to the ground
verb intransitiveWord forms: ˈcapriˌoled or ˈcapriˌoling
3. 
to make a capriole

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Capriole

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n.
1. An upward leap made by a trained horse without going forward and with a backward kick of the hind legs at the height of the leap.
2. A playful leap or jump; a caper.
intr.v. cap·ri·oled, cap·ri·ol·ing, cap·ri·oles
To perform a capriole.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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