Curvet (noun)
ker-vet
A graceful or energetic leap.
Late 16th century from Italian corvetta, diminutive of corva, earlier form of curva ‘a curve’, from Latin curvus ‘bent’.
Example sentences
“He sprang up in a frisky curvet.”
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