English

Noun

caracole ‎(plural caracoles)

1. A half-turn performed by a horse and rider in dressage.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Henry Howard Brownell (1820-1872)

     With curvet and with caracole!

2. (military) A combat maneuver.
3. (architecture) A spiral staircase.

Verb

caracole ‎(third-person singular simple present caracoles, present participle caracoling, simple past and past participle caracoled)

1. To execute a caracole.
   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

     Prince John, upon a grey and high-mettled palfrey, caracoled within the lists at the head of his jovial party, laughing loud with his train, and eyeing with all the boldness of royal criticism the beauties who adorned the lofty galleries.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁa.kɔl/
• Homophones: caracolent, caracoles

Etymology 1

Borrowing from Spanish caracol.

Noun

caracole f ‎(plural caracoles)

1. (architecture) caracole
2. (Belgium) snail

Etymology 2

Verb

caracole

1. inflection of caracoler:
   1. first-person and third-person singular present indicative
   2. first-person and third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

Walloon

Etymology

Borrowing from Spanish caracol

Noun

caracole f ‎(plural caracoles)

1. snail