Definition of "curveting"

One humiliation had succeeded another—the false smiles of the market sellers, the curvetings and oglings of the barmaids with whom his father flirted, the compliments and encouraging words of his father's friends.

1916, James Joyce, chapter 2, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man‎

And when they were back again going through the figure, they made a real pantomime of it, with coquettish smiles and curvettings on her part, roguish glances and bold advances on his.

1940, Sigrid Undset, chapter 9, in Arthur G. Chater, transl., Madame Dorthea, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 239