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  • verb Present participle of caracole.

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Examples

  • Hugh watched him caracoling down the street, and burnt with indignation.

    Master Humphrey's Clock 2007

  • Hugh watched him caracoling down the street, and burnt with indignation.

    Master Humphrey's Clock 2007

  • Thus it is no surprise to see Chavez caracoling above 50% of voting intentions, though he has definitely dropped from his sky high, and hardly credible 70+% of one year ago.

    The coming Venezuelan campaign 2006

  • Thus it is no surprise to see Chavez caracoling above 50% of voting intentions, though he has definitely dropped from his sky high, and hardly credible 70+% of one year ago.

    04/23/2006 - 04/30/2006 2006

  • The earl continued some little distance by the side of the royal family, complimenting them all with courteous speeches, his horse curveting and caracoling, but being managed with great grace and dexterity, leaving the grandees and the people at large not more filled with admiration at the strangeness and magnificence of his state than at the excellence of his horsemanship.

    Washington Irving 2004

  • Regie came dancing and caracoling round the corner.

    Red Pottage 2004

  • Lukashka mounted his horse, and without calling on Maryanka, rode caracoling down the street, where Nazarka was already awaiting him.

    The Cossacks 2003

  • Down in the valley Amalric had stiffened in his saddle when he saw that wild horseman curvetting and caracoling on the slopes while he brandished that blood-stained serpent-banner.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Down in the valley Amalric had stiffened in his saddle when he saw that wild horseman curvetting and caracoling on the slopes while he brandished that blood-stained serpent-banner.

    The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • He went caracoling round, charging at more silk-lined rags.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

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