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CABRIOLE [5 records]

Record 1 2017-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Motor Vehicles and Bicycles
OBS

convertible: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sortes de véhicules automobiles et de bicyclettes
DEF

Véhicule à toit souple formant une berline quand le toit est fermé et du genre torpédo quand le toit est plié.

OBS

«Décapotable» a un sens générique qui fait qu'on peut l'appliquer à toutes les voitures dont le toit est escamotable. «Cabriolet» s'applique particulièrement à la voiture de luxe.

OBS

décapotable; cabriolet : termes uniformisés par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tipos de vehículos automotores y bicicletas
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Record 2 2011-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
DEF

Typical haute école movement ... in which the horse jumps straight upward, with its forelegs drawn in, kicking back with its hind legs horizontal, and lands again in the same spot from which it took off.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

Saut d'école permettant au cheval de s'élever et de dégager une ruade au moment où il est à l'horizontale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
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Record 3 2001-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Furniture Manufacture
  • Antique Furniture (Museums and Heritage)
DEF

A leg of a table, chair, etc. that curves outward and then tapers inward down to a clawlike foot grasping a ball.

CONT

With the advent of the 18th century, just before the reign of Louis XV, a curved animal-shaped leg called cabriole was introduced.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fabrication des meubles en bois
  • Meubles anciens (Muséologie et Patrimoine)
DEF

Dans les arts de l'ameublement, pied en forme de S s'incurvant dans deux directions.

Spanish

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Record 4 2000-06-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gymnastics and Trampoline
OBS

Artistic gymnastics term.

OBS

Technique/tactics.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gymnastique et trampoline
OBS

Terme de gymnastique artistique.

OBS

Technique/tactique.

Spanish

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Record 5 1981-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Physical Fitness Training and Bodybuilding

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conditionnement physique et culturisme

Spanish

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