Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A form of furniture leg that curves outward and then narrows downward into an ornamental foot, characteristic of Queen Anne and Chippendale furniture.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as capriole.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Man.) A curvet; a leap. See capriole.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A type of furniture leg used in certain ornate styles of furniture such as Queen Anne, having a double curve resembling the leg of an animal

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, caper (from its resemblance to the foreleg of a capering animal); see cabriolet.]

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From French a goat's leap

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Examples

  • But now, as soon as the horses arrived, I hurried into a cabriole, and bade farewell to my friend.

    Chapter 7 2010

  • But now, as soon as the horses arrived, I hurried into a cabriole, and bade farewell to my friend.

    Chapter 6 2010

  • He expressed his enthusiasm by referring to a leaping ballet step: "We should clap and cabriole with delight."

    Kirkland Dances to Her Own Music 2010

  • The mahogany stool and hinged lid had a large, shaped apron on all sides to hide the enclosed pot, and stood on cabriole legs with pad feet.

    Commodious Furniture Hels 2009

  • The mahogany stool and hinged lid had a large, shaped apron on all sides to hide the enclosed pot, and stood on cabriole legs with pad feet.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Hels 2009

  • It was an oval shape with cabriole legs and a folding arm, and it resembled a small version of the old hunting tables used by the gentry when they were served drinks after a fox hunt.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • It was an oval shape with cabriole legs and a folding arm, and it resembled a small version of the old hunting tables used by the gentry when they were served drinks after a fox hunt.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • It was an oval shape with cabriole legs and a folding arm, and it resembled a small version of the old hunting tables used by the gentry when they were served drinks after a fox hunt.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • A rude sort of cabriole was at last found, and a driver half drunk, who was not less eager to make a good bargain on that account.

    Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 2003

  • It was a sort of boudoir or dressing-room, with a few pretty old portraits and miniatures, and a number of Louis Quatorze looking-glasses hung round, and such pretty quaint cabriole gilt and pale green furniture.

    Wylder's Hand 2003

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