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cabriole|ˈkæbrɪəʊl|
[In senses 1 and 4, a. F. cabriole (16th c.) a leap like that of a goat. Senses 2, 3, appear to be old errors for cabriolet.]
1.
†a. A capriole, a caper (of a horse). Obs.
1814Scott Wav. I. viii. 103 The occasional cabrioles which his charger exhibited.
b. = capriole n. 1; spec. in Ballet, a springing step in which one leg is extended and the second leg is brought up to the first.
1805F. Peacock Sk. Dancing 110 The steps may be accompanied with bendings, risings, leaps, cabrioles. 1830R. Barton tr. Blasis's Code of Terpsichore ii. vi. 78 An attitude upon one leg, as in..the cabriole, brisés and the rond-de-jambe en l'air. 1952Ballet Ann. VI. 126/2 Eglevsky's special talent for hanging calmly in the air for an unbelievable moment during his cabrioles.
†2. Obs. A kind of small arm-chair (Littré). In full cabriole chair.
1781Eng. Chron. 27–30 Jan. 1/2 The..original Manufactory for all sorts of Cabriole Chairs. 1785Mackenzie Lounger No. 36 ⁋8 Sofas and stuffed chairs in the drawing-room, which my Lady has made her change for cabrioles. 1848H. R. Forster Stowe Catal. (Terminal Advt.) 15 Cabriole Drawing Room Chairs.
†3. Obs. = cabriolet.
1797Holcroft Stolberg's Trav. (ed. 2) II. lxi. 403 The coaches are..less dangerous than the little one horse cabrioles. 1801W. Felton Carriages II. 180 The Cabriole is a two wheeled Carriage with the body like a Chariot, mostly used in France.
4. A form of curved leg, frequent in Queen Anne and Chippendale furniture, so called from its resemblance to a quadruped's foreleg making a leap or caper.
1888J. Marshall in Catal. Exhib. Decor. Handiwork, Edin. 59 Settees and chairs with their cabriole legs and lion-claw feet. 1902L. V. Lockwood Col. Furniture Amer. 56 Walnut and Inlay Cabriole-legged Dressing-table. 1907H. C. Candee Decor. Styles 202 The cabriole leg is the one great point of this decorative period with which collectors..must arm themselves. 1966A. W. Lewis Gloss. Woodworking Terms 11 Cabriole leg, furniture leg which curves outwards at the top and inwards at the bottom. |
