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单词 curveting
释义

curveting

English

Alternative forms

  • curvetting

Verb

curveting

  1. present participle of curvet

Noun

curveting (plural curvetings)

  1. The motion of a horse or other animal that curvets.
    the curvetings of a horse
  2. (of a person) Caper, frisking, often with a nuance of flirtation.
    • 1916, James Joyce, chapter 2, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:
      One humiliation had succeeded another—the false smiles of the market sellers, the curvetings and oglings of the barmaids with whom his father flirted, the compliments and encouraging words of his father's friends.
    • 1940, Sigrid Undset, Madame Dorthea, translated by Arthur G. Chater, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Chapter 9, p. 239,
      And when they were back again going through the figure, they made a real pantomime of it, with coquettish smiles and curvettings on her part, roguish glances and bold advances on his.
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