So once more Avenant and Cabriole set out; they journeyed on until they came to a rock, black as ink, from which smoke was issuing, and a moment later there appeared one of the dragons belching forth fire from his eyes and mouth.
Upon hearing what had occurred, Cabriole at once went and told Avenant, who asked him to go to the Princess Goldenhair and beseech her to remember the poor prisoner.
As soon as it was day, Cabriole awoke him saying, "Dress yourself, my master, and come out.
Here cabriole means but a courtly knee swiftly bending to salute some beauty's hand.
The cabriole leg may be defined as "a convex curve above a concave one, with the point of junction smoothed away.
Louis XV legs show a curve, also, but no longer the stoggy, squat cabriole of the over-fed gallant.
The early Chippendale was almost identical with Queen Anne furniture and continued the use of cabriole leg and claw and ball feet.
In fact that type of leg is far more typical of the Louis XVI period than the cabriole or square legs grooved, but one sees all three styles.
One of the characteristics of the Mahogany Period was the cabriole leg, which is, also, associated with Italian and French furniture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The characteristic Chippendale leg is cabriole with claw and ball foot.
This idea must have arisen from the fact that many chairs of the eighteenth century with cabriole legs, did have stuffed backs.
From these forms was gradually developed the Chippendale chair, with its elaborately interlaced back, its graceful arms and square or cabriole legs, the latter terminating in the claw and ball or the pad foot.
During he reign of William and Mary these charming forms degenerated into something much stiffer and more rectangular, with a solid, more or less fiddle-shaped splat and a cabriole leg with pad feet.
The table with cabriole legs came into fashion, and immediately cabriole legs in some form or other became de rigueur.
We refer to the cabriole leg and the shaped foot, which ultimately developed into the claw-and-ball.
It is well to remember, however, that in England thecabriole leg in its original and simpler form belongs to the reign of Queen Anne.
Queen Anne chair with cabriole legs, carved with an escallop-shell, a form of decoration which finds its way upon very many forms of furniture of this time, and is as popular as the crown and cherub decoration of the departed Stuarts.
The angular-kneed cabriole legs denote the period--about 1710, the middle of Queen Anne's reign.
Queen Anne period with escallop-shell decoration, cabriole legs and an early form of the claw-and-ball feet.
The term cabriole has become generic, and is now applied to almost any furniture leg built with a knee.
The first movement appears to have occurred when the straight lines of the Stuart furniture were superseded by the curved lines of the Dutch style; and occasionally we find the cabriole leg on a William and Mary chair, as in Fig.
The cabriole leg has been traced back to China and Egypt, but was introduced into England through Holland and France.
Look at these noteworthy dependable furniture friends: Chippendale wing chair with handsomely carved cabriole legs; ball and claw feet.
The ribband back chair has the cabriole ball and claw and leaf carving on the knees and is upholstered in a hand-blocked tapestry.
Cabriole legs were almost universal; chair backs were high and narrow, with open framing and a fiddle splat, usually plain but sometimes simply carved or pierced.
Furniture legs were mostly turned, of trumpet shape and with bun feet, though the Dutch cabriole legs, with pad feet and a single shell carved on the knees, were not uncommon.
The projecting upper curve of a cabriole leg; see "leg.
Cabriole was the only creature that gave him consolation: "Courage, master!
Before dawn Cabriole wakened him, saying, "Master, dress yourself and let us go to the river.
He reached a mountain-side, where he sat down to rest, leaving his horse to graze, and Cabriole to run after the flies.
When Cabriole saw the monster, the poor little dog hid himself in terrible fright.
However, his little dog Cabriole never forsook him, but cheered him the best he could, and brought him all the news of the court.
But when Cabrioleperceived it was broad day, he fell a barking so loud that he waked his master.
At length he arrived at the top of a mountain, where he sat down to rest himself; giving his horse liberty to feed, and Cabriole to run after the flies.
Cabriole was one of the first that came to a knowledge of this accident, and immediately ran to inform Avenant of it who bid him go to the Fair One with Locks of Gold, and remind her of the poor prisoner.
The lower one sees the leg losing its cabriole curve, but still rounded and still possessing the club foot.
The seat is finely shaped and the legs are cabriole form.
The country touch always betrays itself in the cabriole leg, whether in chair or in table.
In the table the cabriole leg showed early signs of passing away.
The country maker was slow to adopt the cabriole leg when it was fashionable, but when it became unfashionable he was equally loth to depart from his accustomed style.
At first using thecabriole leg with ball-and-claw foot, not quite as he found it, but reduced to slightly more slender proportions to be in symmetry with his less massive backs to chairs, Chippendale came to the straight line.
With plain fiddle splat of Queen Anne type, Chippendale top rail and cabriole legs, and three turned stretchers.
The exact curve of the cabrioleleg is dangerous in the hands of a novice, who rarely if ever gets the correct balance in conjunction with the rest of the construction.
The cabriole legs were often carved with a shell on the knees, the acanthus being used in the more elaborate pieces of furniture, and ended chiefly in a club foot.
He early used the ogee curve and cabriole leg, the knees of which he carved with cartouches and leaves or other designs.
Illustration: The general proportions, the broken pediment and torch or flame ornaments and drops, large brasses, and cabriole legs all show that this splendid example of a highboy belongs to the same time as the desk, about 1750.
The cabriole leg became simpler as time passed until in the days of Queen Mary it became the one we all know so well in the Dutch chairs and the early work of Chippendale.
Illustration: This fine example of a Queen Anne lacquered chair shows the characteristic splat and top curve, the slip seat narrower at the back than front with rounded corners, and cabriole legs.
His dining-tables were on the plan of those of Chippendale but lighter in effect with tapering legs instead of the long cabriole leg ending in claw feet.
Marquetry died out and gave place to carving, and the cabriole leg, one of the chief marks of Dutch influence, became a firmly fixed style.
Ladder-back chairs nearly always had straight legs, either plain or with double ogee curve and bead moldings, but there are a few examples of ladder-back and cabriole legs combined, although these are very rare.
There were several styles of curved leg, the cabriole leg of Dutch influence, and the curved style of Louis XV.
A rather elaborate form of the cabriole leg was used, ending in a species of hoof with a scroll-like stretcher between the front legs and curved stretchers connecting all four legs.
The chair backs took more the curve of the human figure, and the seats were broader in front than in the back; the cabriole legs were broad at the top and ended in claw or pad feet, and there were no straining-rails.
Later they were curved and carved, a kind of elaborate cabriole leg, and had carved underframing.
That was at the introduction of the curved or cabriole leg, in the early days of Queen Anne.
Plate XXX] [Illustration: Plate XXXI--QUEEN ANNE CHAIR With marquetry back and carved cabriole leg with hoof and serpentine stretcher Courtesy of P.
Those with cabriolelegs usually have claw feet and a shell or leaf at the top.
The fluted shaft and the cabriole legs with ball-and-claw feet are well proportioned.
Characteristic of the Chippendale manner are the cabriolelegs and the style of the relief carving.
These chairs are in style thoroughly Dutch, of about the end of the seventeenth or early in the eighteenth century; the cabriole legs and shell ornaments were probably the direct result of the influence of the French on the Dutch.
Cabriole chair," implying a stuffed back, and not having reference, as it does now, to the curved form of the leg.
An excellent example of a piece with cabriole legs is the charming little Marie Antoinette cylinder-fronted marqueterie escritoire in the Jones Collection (illustrated below).
The legs of his pieces are slender and straight, as distinguished from the cabriole leg, but are generally enriched with flutings, and they taper pleasingly to the foot.
The chairs with cabriole legs were called bandy or bow-legged when they first came into use, about 1700, which is also about the time that easy-chairs were first used in bedrooms.
The cabriole leg and style of curtain lead to the supposition that the piece is Dutch.
First may be mentioned the ball-and-claw foot, and the cabriole leg which he adopted from the Dutch, and which he used so freely before he introduced the straight leg.
The stands on which the smaller cabinets stood were turned with the spiral leg of Jacobean days, and later they have the cabriole leg, with ball-and-claw or club feet.
With the period of William and Mary the cabrioleleg in chairs and in tables became popular--at first an English adaptation of Dutch models--but later to develop into the glorious creations of the age of walnut.
To the first they assign the more solid chairs or settees with cabriolelegs and Louis XIV.
The splat back and the cabriole leg give the date, and the specimen is a noteworthy example.
Before dawnCabriole wakened him, saying: "Master, dress yourself and let us go to the river.
He reached a mountain-side, where he sat down to rest, leaving his horse to graze and Cabriole to run after the flies.
So Cabriole slipped in amongst the crowd of courtiers who had assembled on the king's death, and whispered to her majesty: "Do not forget poor Avenant.
Cabriole ran to his master to tell him the news, when Avenant bid him go and remind the queen of the poor prisoner.
But his little dog Cabriole bid him be of good cheer, as fortune would no doubt favour him; and though Avenant did not much rely on his good luck, he at length fell asleep from sheer exhaustion.
Illustration] The next morning Cabriole woke up his master who dressed himself and went to take a walk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cabriole" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
