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Caracole   Listen
noun
Caracole  n.  
1.
(Man.) A half turn which a horseman makes, either to the right or the left.
2.
(Arch.) A staircase in a spiral form.
En caracole, spiral; said of a staircase.





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"Caracole" Quotes from Famous Books



... man, but a man skilled in intrigue and court diplomacy. Although the road was narrow and dangerous, twisting over mountains and beside rushing streams, The One, in order to feast his eyes on Mrs. Jimmie, permitted his horse to curvet and caracole as if he were in tourney. Jimmie, while the count was doing it, managed to whisper to me: "Tom Sawyer showing off," but I knew that it was for a second purpose which counted for ...
— Abroad with the Jimmies • Lilian Bell
... an improvised St. Vitus caracole, which would have brought him fame on the boards of the Coliseum, and which indeed met with ready appreciation and applause from the retreating figure of Groby Lington, he found that the monkey had also discreetly retired, while his clothes were scattered on the grass at the foot ...
— The Chronicles of Clovis • Saki


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