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# curvet

«curvet» in Mova's school dictionary: **A horse's leap or prance, with its forelegs raised** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (curvets); verb (curvets, curvetted, curvetting), US curveted

### meaning for a pupil

1) A horse's leap or prance, with its forelegs raised. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curvet/#m1)

2) To curvet is to leap or prance about like a horse, in a showy way. (old use, riding term) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curvet/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales of horses and knights, a horse leaps and prances to show off

### examples

- The horse curvetted across the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curvet/#x1)
- The knight's steed curveted in the courtyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curvet/#x2)
- Her pony curvets when it hears the music. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curvet/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «curvet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curvet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.