Word.ws English Dictionary

corvettos

corvettos is the plural of corvetto.

Meaning of 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
  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

Questions about corvettos

What is corvettos the plural of?
Corvettos is the plural of corvetto.

Words near corvettos in the dictionary

  1. corvetted
  2. corvettes
  3. corvetting
  4. corvettings
  5. corvetto
  6. corvettos
  7. corvi
  8. corvid
  9. corvids
  10. corviform
  11. Corvin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: corvettos (page history and authors); corvetto (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “corvettos.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/corvettos. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.