cab|ri|ole

cab|ri|ole
cab|ri|ole «KAB ree ohl», noun.
1. a style of curved leg with an ornamental foot, used especially in Chippendale and Queen Anne furniture.
2. Ballet. a leap in which one leg is extended and the other leg is brought up to the first.
[< French cabriole a leap, variant of capriole (because it resembles the foreleg of an animal making a capriole)]

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