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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.
Plate IV shows one of two known colonial North Carolina bottle cases, both with cabriole legs.
The simple rectangular front legs of the earlier type, originally a continuation of the arm support, have been supplanted here by cabriole legs adorned with carved masks.
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.
It has cabriole legs headed with a gilt brass-winged lion mask and paw sabots.

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