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caracoles

caracoles is the plural of caracole.

Meaning of caracole

Noun

caracole (plural caracoles)

  1. A half-turn performed by a horse and rider in dressage.
  2. (historical, cavalry) 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
  3. A spiral staircase.

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Proper noun capitalized: Caracoles

Caracoles

  1. A former mining town in the Antofagasta region, Chile.

Questions about caracoles

What does caracoles mean?
Caracoles means a former mining town in the Antofagasta region, Chile.
What is caracoles the plural of?
Caracoles is the plural of caracole.
What part of speech is caracoles?
Caracoles is a proper noun.

Words near caracoles in the dictionary

  1. caracol
  2. caracole
  3. caracoled
  4. caracoler
  5. caracolers
  6. caracoles
  7. caracoling
  8. caracolings
  9. caracolite
  10. caracolle
  11. caracolled

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