Definitions for cabriole

cabriole cab·ri·ole

Spelling: [kab-ree-ohl; French ka-bree-aw
IPA: /ˈkæb riˌoʊl; French ka briˈɔl/

Cabriole is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 410 anagrams from letters in cabriole (abceilor).

Definitions for cabriole

noun

  1. Furniture. a curved, tapering leg curving outward at the top and inward farther down so as to end in a round pad, the semblance of an animal's paw, or some other feature: used especially in the first half of the 18th century.
  2. Ballet. a leap in which one leg is raised in the air and the other is brought up to beat against it.

Origin of cabriole

1775-85; French: leap, caper; so called because modeled on leg of a capering animal (see capriole); b by influence of cabri kid (≪ Old Provençal) and kindred word

Examples for cabriole

But the most interesting feature is the cabriole leg, so definitely indicative of the eighteenth century.

It is as though the cabriole leg were a sudden afterthought.

Examples of the cabriole leg appear as illustrations to various types of furniture in this chapter.

Showing at a later period the last traces of the cabriole leg.

But when cabriole perceived it was broad day, he fell a barking so loud that he waked his master.

However, his little dog cabriole never forsook him, but cheered him the best he could, and brought him all the news of the court.

The legs of his earlier furniture were cabriole, and later they were straight.

In the table the cabriole leg showed early signs of passing away.

Showing transition from cabriole leg to straight leg of 1760.

He used the ball-and-claw foot with the cabriole leg: this was succeeded by the straight leg.

Word Value for cabriole
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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