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From French cabriole (“a goat's leap”).
cabriole (plural cabrioles)
- A type of furniture leg used in certain ornate styles of furniture such as Queen Anne, having a double curve resembling the leg of an animal.
2009 January 23, Benjamin Genocchio, “A Winter Wonderland of Old and Modern Invites Meandering”, in New York Times[1]:
It has been repaired in places, like a lot of period furniture, but it retains its original finish, […] along with splendid cabriole legs with claw-and-ball feet.
Borrowed from Italian capriola, initially as capriole, with a final -e to fit French norms.
- IPA(key): /ka.bʁi.jɔl/
- Homophones: cabriolent, cabrioles
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- → Portuguese: cabriola
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- “cabriole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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