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Caracole   Listen
noun
Caracole  n.  
1.
(Man.) A half turn which a horseman makes, either to the right or the left.
2.
(Arch.) A staircase in a spiral form.
En caracole, spiral; said of a staircase.





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"Caracole" Quotes from Famous Books



... Belleisle's intentions. Lobkowitz, unable to exist in the black circuit, has retired beyond it, and taken the eastern side of the Moldau, as the least ruined; leaving the Tolpatchery, under one Festititz, to caracole round the black horizon on the west. Farther, as the Moldau is rolling ice, and Lobkowitz is afraid of his pontoons, he drags them out high and dry: 'Can be replaced in a day, when wanted.' In a day; yes, thinks Belleisle, but not ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XIV. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle


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