car|a|cole

car|a|cole
car|a|cole «KAR uh kohl», noun, verb, -coled, -col|ing.
–n.
1. a half turn to the right or left, made by a horse and rider.
2. one of the turns made by a horse in prancing on a zigzag course.
–v.i.
to move in a series of half turns; prance from side to side: »

Theirs are huge and heartshaped monsters…glossy black as the black patent leather pumps in which we once caracoled in society's exclusive cotillions (New Yorker).

[< French caracole < Spanish caracol (originally) spiral shell, snail]

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