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verb (curvets, curveting, curveted)
  1. (context, of a horse) To leap about, frolic.
  • 1963, Firelily, under him, seemed sexually aroused, she curveted and frolicked so about the line of march, covering five miles to the prisoners" one. " Thomas Pynchon, V.
Etymology: From Italian corvetta, diminutive of corva, an early form of curva "curve", from Latin curva feminine of curvus "bent, curved".


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