falcade

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In the manège, the action of a horse when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, as in a very quick curvet.

Wiktionary

1. n. A horse's movement of throwing itself on its haunches two or three times, bending in very quick curvets.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Man.) The action of a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets.