curvet

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Elizabeth's Winston, pestered by a swarm of thunder flies, began to curvet alarmingly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tigers walk treadmills, horses curvet superbly and Harry Rittely sits atop seven tables and topples over backwards.

From Time Magazine Archive

The horse, surprised at his burden, cantered casually along at first; then, resenting the intrusion, began to toss his head, snort and curvet about.

From Penny of Top Hill Trail by Lyford, Philip

Pannade, pa-nād′, n. the curvet of a horse.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

On his way thither, he witched the world of Nismes with his noble horsemanship, making his charger bound and prance and curvet, greatly to the delight of the immense crowd that followed him.

From The Huguenots in France by Smiles, Samuel