cabriole

From French cabriole (“a goat's leap”).

cabriole (plural cabrioles)

1. A type of furniture leg used in certain ornate styles of furniture such as Queen Anne, having a double curve resembling the leg of an animal.
   • 2009 January 23, Benjamin Genocchio, “A Winter Wonderland of Old and Modern Invites Meandering”, in New York Times‎:

     It has been repaired in places, like a lot of period furniture, but it retains its original finish, […] along with splendid cabriole legs with claw-and-ball feet.

• cabriolet
• cabriole on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Alberico, albicore, braciole

Borrowed from Italian capriola, initially as capriole, with a final -e to fit French norms.

• IPA^(key): /ka.bʁi.jɔl/

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• Homophones: cabriolent, cabrioles

cabriole f (plural cabrioles)

1. capriole (jump)
2. (dressage) capriole

• → Portuguese: cabriola

cabriole

1. inflection of cabrioler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “cabriole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

cabriole

1. inflection of cabriolar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

cabriole

1. inflection of cabriolar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

cabriole

1. inflection of cabriolar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative