curvet vs gambado

curvet

verb
  • To fly or swim with darting movements. 

  • (of a person) To prance; to caper, frolic. 

  • Of a horse or, by extension, another animal: to leap about, to frolic. 

  • (of an object) To jump, skip, shake. 

  • To cause to leap about, dart or jump. 

noun
  • A prank; a frolic. 

  • A particular leap in which a horse raises both forelegs at once, equally advanced, and, as the forelegs are falling, raises the hind legs, so that all the legs are in the air at once. 

gambado

verb
  • To perform a gambade (leaping movement). 

noun
  • Either of a pair of protective leather gaiters on a saddle. 

  • gamashes; spatterdashes. 

  • A gambade (leaping movement). 

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