curvetとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /kɜːˈvɛt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɚˈvɛt/

動詞

curvet (三人称単数 現在形 curvets, 現在分詞 curveting または curvetting, 過去形および過去分詞形 curveted または curvetted)

1. (intransitive) Of a horse or, by extension, another animal: to leap about, to frolic.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, lines 277-282,^[1]

     Sometime he trots, as if he told the steps, / With gentle majesty and modest pride; / Anon he rears upright, curvets and leaps, / As who should say, 'Lo! thus my strength is tried; / And this I do to captivate the eye / Of the fair breeder that is standing by.'

   • 1886, Theodore Dwight Weld, "Shakespeare in the Class-Room," in Shakespeariana, Vol. III, p. 441

     The boy turns into a dog and bow-wows—a cock, he flaps his wings and crows—a cow, he fetches a long drawn moo—a horse broke loose, he curvets, prances and kicks fearfully among his nursery blocks—a big bull, he waxes dangerous as he bellows and paws the carpet—a locomotive, he blows his steam whistle and dashes round the nursery with puffs and yells spasmodic, or taming down, sticks a feather in his cap and struts a soldier.

   • 1893, Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “The Dog-king”, in Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., OCLC 1061866646, page 58:

     [T]he dog—a magnificent Newfoundland—that had come galloping down the field to meet us, began curveting round us, in gambols full of graceful beauty, and welcoming us with short joyful barks.