The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curvet \Cur"vet\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Curveted or -vetted; p. pr. & vb. n. Curveting or -vetting.] [Cf. It. corvettare. See Curvet, n.]
To make a curvet; to leap; to bound. ``Oft and high he did curvet.''
--Drayton.To leap and frisk; to frolic.
--Shak.
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vb. (en-past of: curvet)
Usage examples of "curveted".
His relief, therefore, when Archie curveted into his private room and announced that he had succeeded was great.
He curveted towards their table, beaming and erect, his head up, his gaze level, and his chest expanded, for all the world as if he had been reading the hints in "The Personality That Wins.
The car jumped off from the rail and curveted on her two wheels along the metal strip in the road, angled out, and joined the main lane, picking up speed fast, running empty.
Her prow curveted as it were the neck of a stallion, and a great wave of dark blue water seethed in her wake.
Already, while it was early, the benches were beginning to fill with people of quality, who kept constantly arriving in little carts or upon palfreys that curveted gaily to the merry tinkle of silver bells at bridle reins.
Firelily, under him, seemed sexually aroused, she curveted and frolicked so about the line of march, covering five miles to the prisoners' one.
Theela stood as he jumped for her strong back, then as his legs curled about her, she curveted a little, testing his seat.
The schooner, her mainsail set and jib-sheet to windward, curveted on the purple sea.