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caper
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synonyms: gambol, curvet ???
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Definition:a playful skip
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Flimnap, the treasurer, is allowed to cut a caper on the straight rope, at least an inch higher than any other lord in the whole empire.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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Edmund: Oh Bob, this is Percy, a dimwit I don't seem to be able to shake off.
Percy: Ah, hello there Bob, you young roister-doister, you. Ah, you look a likely sort of lad for tricks and sports and all sorts of jolly, rosy cheap capering, eh. Of course you do, and more besides, I warrant thee, young scamp.
BBC. Blackadder, season 2: Bells
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Alec was almost dancing in ecstasy, his arthritic form capering up and down in the hay.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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Everything tends to show that his convelescence will be brief; and who knows even if at our next village festivity we shall not see our good Hippolyte figuring in the bacchic dance in the midst of a chorus of joyous boon-companions, and thus proving to all eyes by his verve and his capers his complete cure?
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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