corvetto

Noun

corvetto (plural corvettos)

1. A curvet; a leap.
   • You must draw the horse in his career with his manage, and turn, doing the corvetto, leaping &c..1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman
   • but scarce had I drawn back mine arms, strained the outward flexure of my knee-joints, and was fixed in an apt disposure to take the corvetto primo and leap-valiant of the cour, when methought suddenly there came in and did appear before me mine ancient, most reverend and singular good friend, the...1843, Bernard M— (of S—), A Dream of a Queen's Reign, page 4
2. An Egyptian style of cornice, resembling the roof structure of a reed hut.
   • These all have a crowning corvetto and ovolo.1996, Avnēr Rabbān, Kenneth G. Holum, Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective After Two Millennia, page 141
   • House D had Egyptian architectural features and artefacts, such as a stone slab with a corvetto cornice, a royal signet ring (Psamtik I), and mud sealings (Necho II) (Mumford 2007).2010, Alan B. Lloyd, A Companion to Ancient Egypt, page 348