caracole
See also: caracolé
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French caracole (noun, literally “snail's shell”), caracoler (verb).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkæɹəkəʊl/
Noun
caracole (plural caracoles)
- A half-turn performed by a horse and rider in dressage.
- (cavalry) A combat maneuver where riders of the same squadron turn simultaneously to their left or to their right.
- 1866, Henry Howard Brownell, “Abraham Lincoln (Summer, 1865)”, in War-Lyrics and Other Poems, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, page 127:
- How the chargers neigh and champ, / (Their riders weary of camp,) / With curvet and with caracole!
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- (architecture) A spiral staircase.
Translations
half-turn performed by a horse and rider
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in cavalry
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Verb
caracole (third-person singular simple present caracoles, present participle caracoling, simple past and past participle caracoled)
- To execute a caracole.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
- Prince John, upon a grey and high-mettled palfrey, caracoled within the lists at the head of his jovial party, laughing loud with his train, and eyeing with all the boldness of royal criticism the beauties who adorned the lofty galleries.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.ʁa.kɔl/
- Homophones: caracolent, caracoles
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Spanish caracol.
Noun
caracole f (plural caracoles)
- (equestrianism) caracole
- (architecture) caracole
- (Belgium) snail
Verb
caracole
- inflection of caracoler:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “caracole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Walloon
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish caracol.
Noun
caracole f (plural caracoles)
- snail