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Curvet vs Cuvet - What's the difference?

curvet | cuvet |

As nouns the difference between curvet and cuvet

is that 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 while cuvet is (chemical vessel).

As a verb curvet

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

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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    cuvet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chemical vessel)