English to Shona Meaning of capriole - capriole

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Definitions of capriole in English

Noun(1) (dressage(2) a playful leap or hop
Verb(1) perform a capriole, of horses in dressage(2) perform a capriole, in ballet

Examples of capriole in English

(1) The haute école of classical equitation includes movements with direct military application, like the capriole which was originally intended to enable a horseman to use his steed to kick an attacker approaching from behind.(2) There's this one, the capriole , where the horse jumps up and snaps his hind legs out.(3) Not knowing a pesade from a pirouette or a courbette from a capriole , I was seduced by the riders' dashing livery of black boots, white tights, brown dress coat and gilded bicorn hat, and the ambiance of aristocratic Vienna.(4) It sometimes had goats' feet, and the word itself means ‘the leap of the goat’ - a meaning it still retains in ballet in the leap called the capriole .(5) It comes ‘in curvets and caprioles , with the flashing of glutted fish-runs’, and so on for a page of equally shimmery and restive fine-tuning.(6) Seyffert, too, hung on a rope, flung from the dome, was hurled up again and again thereby performed the most stunning caprioles .(7) After a series of caprioles in response to more clapping, the announcer asked the crowd to hold their applause while Chris rode the horse with only the single lead from the nose ring of a Spanish exhibition halter.(8) They were not acted to the accompaniment of mere commonplace gestures like a play, nor danced in imitative caprioles like a ballet.

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Noun

1. caper ::

muchero unonzi

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