caracole
/ˈkæɹəkəʊl/
caracole noun: a half-turn performed by a horse and rider in dressage.
Noun
caracole (plural caracoles)
- A half-turn performed by a horse and rider in dressage.
- A combat maneuver where riders of the same squadron turn simultaneously to their left or to their right.
- How the chargers neigh and champ, / (Their riders weary of camp,) / With curvet and with caracole!1866, Henry Howard Brownell, “Abraham Lincoln (Summer, 1865)”, in War-Lyrics and Other Poems, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, page 127
- The caracole played a role well into the Thirty Years' War.1975, Hans Delbrück, History of the Art of War Within the Framework of Political History, Volume 4, Greenwood Press, page 124
- A spiral staircase.
Verb
caracole (third-person singular simple present caracoles, present participle caracoling, simple past and past participle caracoled)
- To execute a caracole.
- Prince John, upon a grey and high-mettled palfrey, caracoled within the lists at the head of his jovial party, laughing loud with his train, and eyeing with all the boldness of royal criticism the beauties who adorned the lofty galleries.1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
- Finally he went out of church and caracoled about on the open, at the foot of the castle, in presence of the people eager to have their share in the spectacle.1884, Robert Black (translator), François Guizot, Henriette Elizabeth Guizot de Witt, The History of France from the Earliest Times to 1848, Volume 1, John B. Alden, page 259
caracole meaning in Tamil
caracole in Tamil
- சுழற்படிக்கட்டு
Forms of caracole
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | caracoles |
| alternative form | caracol |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | caracoles |
| present participle | caracoling |
| past participle | caracoled |
| past | caracoled |
Origin of caracole
Borrowed from French caracole (noun, literally “snail's shell”), caracoler (verb).
Questions about caracole
- What does caracole mean?
- Caracole means a half-turn performed by a horse and rider in dressage.
- What is caracole in Tamil?
- Caracole in Tamil is சுழற்படிக்கட்டு. See Caracole meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is caracole?
- Caracole can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce caracole?
- Caracole is pronounced /ˈkæɹəkəʊl/.
- What is the plural of caracole?
- The plural of caracole is caracoles.
Words near caracole in the dictionary
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