falcade

English

Etymology

From French falcade, ultimately from Latin falx, falcis (“a sickle or scythe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fælˈkeɪd/

Noun

falcade (plural falcades)

1. A horse's movement of throwing itself on its haunches two or three times, bending in very quick curvets.
   • 1717, Jacques de Solleysel, The Compleat Horseman:

     let him make two or three Falcades or Times , to firm his Haunches the better, and to turn with the better Grace.

References

• “falcade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Noun

falcade f (plural falcades)

1. falcade