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Curvet vs Corvette - What's the difference?

curvet | corvette |

As a verb curvet

is (of a horse) to leap about, frolic.

As a noun curvet

is a particular leap of a horse, when he raises both forelegs at once, equally advanced, and, as his forelegs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once.

As a proper noun corvette is

a sports car, manufactured by from 1953 to present, an american icon.

curvet

English

Verb

  • (of a horse) To leap about, frolic.
  • :* 1963', Firelily, under him, seemed sexually aroused, she '''curveted and frolicked so about the line of march, covering five miles to the prisoners’ one. — Thomas Pynchon, ''V.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both forelegs at once, equally advanced, and, as his forelegs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once.
  • A prank; a frolic.
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    corvette

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (rare)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical, historical) A flush-decked warship of the 17th-18th centuries having a single tier of guns; it ranked next below a frigate; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.
  • (nautical) In a modern navy, a lightly armed and armoured blue water warship, smaller than a frigate, capable of transoceanic duty.