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Definition of Curvets
1. curvet [v] - See also: curvet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curvets
Literary usage of Curvets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History and Art of Horsemanship by Richard Berenger, Claude Bourgelat, Xenephon, Thomas Pownall (1771)
"To teach him to make them backwards, you muft make him go backward; afterwards
put him to make three or four curvets in the fame place, that is without ..."
2. A Dictionary of the English Languageby Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"In horsemanship, a horse is said to abate or take down bis curvets ; when working
upon curvets, he puts his two hind-legs to the ground both at once, ..."
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