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CURVET

Volume 2 · 95 words · 1771 Edition

or CORVET, in the menage, an air in which the horse's legs are raised higher than in the demi volt; being a kind of leap up, and a little forwards, wherein the horse raises both his fore-legs at once, equally advanced, (when he is going straight forward, and not in a circle), and as his fore-legs are falling, he immediately raises his hind-legs, equally advanced, and not one before the other: so that all his four legs are in the air at once; and as he sets them down, he marks but twice with them.