Caracoleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹəkəʊl/

名詞

caracole (複数形 caracoles)

1. A half-turn performed by a horse and rider in dressage.
2. (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!

3. (architecture) A spiral staircase.

動詞

caracole (三人称単数 現在形 caracoles, 現在分詞 caracoling, 過去形および過去分詞形 caracoled)

1. 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.