[f. CAPER v. + -ER1.]

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  1.  One who capers.

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1693.  Dryden, Juvenal’s Sat. xiv. 318.

        The Tumblers gambols some delight afford,
No less the nimble Caperer on the Cord.

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1812.  Byron, Waltz, x. Columbia’s caperers to the warlike whoop.

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  2.  A caddis-fly (Phryganea); from its flight.

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1855.  Kingsley, Glaucus (1878), 208. Caperers and sand-flies. Ibid. (1863), Water-bab., 80. Fly away as a caperer, on four fawn-coloured wings, with long legs and horns.

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