[-ING2.] That curvets: see the verb.

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1599.  Marston, Sco. Villanie, III. xi. 228. His very intellect Is naught but a curuetting Sommerset.

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1750.  Wesley, Wks. (1872), II. 185. A fine curvetting horse.

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1848.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., II. 490. Rushed through the drawn swords and curvetting horses.

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1878.  M. A. Brown, Nadeschda, 25. On his curveting charger’s back.

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