Noun: caracole
| Singular | caracole |
| Plural | caracoles |
Sample Sentences
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How the chargers neigh and champ, / (Their riders weary of camp,) / With curvet and with caracole! [1866, Henry Howard Brownell, “Abraham Lincoln (Summer, 1865)”, in War-Lyrics and Other Poems, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, page 127:]
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The caracole played a role well into the Thirty Years' War. [1975, Hans Delbrück, History of the Art of War Within the Framework of Political History, Volume 4, Greenwood Press, page 124:]
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The battle tactic of these cavalry was called the caracole, an attack with pistols. There were four main varieties which may be called the simple caracole, the true caracole, the limacon, and the Protestant caracole. [2001, William P. Guthrie, Battles of the Thirty Years War, Bloomsbury Academic, page 12:]
Nouns inflected like caracole
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French caracole (noun, literally “snail's shell”), caracoler (verb). See: French Nouns '
caracole'.