CABRIOLE


Meaning of CABRIOLE in English

n. a kind of curved leg characteristic of Queen Anne and Chippendale furniture.

[ F f. cabrioler, caprioler f. It. capriolare to leap in the air; from the resemblance to a leaping animal's foreleg: see CAPRIOLE ]

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