[-ING1.] The action of the verb CURVET, q.v.

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1784.  trans. Beckford’s Vathek (1868), 55. The unwieldy curvetting of these poor beasts.

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1801.  Strutt, Sports & Past., III. v. 203. Imitating the curvetings and motions of a horse.

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1840.  Barham, Ingol. Leg., Witches’ Frolic. Such lofty curvetting And grand pirouetting.

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