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What is a cabriole?

What is a cabriole? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A type of furniture leg used in certain ornate styles of furniture such as Queen Anne, having a double curve resembling the leg of an animal.
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Minimal hand-carving blended the narrow taper of the leg into the foot turning and created the semblance of a carved cabriole leg at low cost.
The cabriole legs with claw-and-ball feet, shaped splats, and yoke-shape crests echo English designs, but the exuberance of the curvaceous outlines is definitely Mexican.
The exaggerated cabriole legs are thrust too far outward and are too slender given the size of the cabinet.
It has trifid feet on cabriole legs without shells on the knees.
You'd see a double cabriole and next day you'd go into the studio and think, if he could do this then I'll try!
The legs of his earlier furniture were cabriole, and later they were straight.

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