Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In the manège, a leap in which the horse draws up his hind legs toward the belly, without showing his shoes.

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

  • noun (Man.) A leap in which the horse pulls up his hind legs toward his belly.

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  • noun A leap in which the horse pulls its hind legs up towards the belly.

Etymologies

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French, from croupe hind quarters.

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Examples

  • Here it is used for "croupade," "a high curvet in which the hind legs are brought up under the belly of the horse" (_N.

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

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