gallopade
English
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editNoun
editgallopade (plural gallopades)
- (obsolete) gallop
- 1898, Henry Francis Keenan, The Iron Game[1]:
- At the same instant the sounding gallopade of hoofs came from the tranquil roadway leading to the stables.
- A type of dance, also known as the galop.
- The music for this kind of dance.
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 28:
- They were a regular series of thumpings from the interior of the house, occasioned by the violent rocking of a cradle upon a stone floor, to which movement a feminine voice kept time by singing, in a vigorous gallopade, the favourite ditty of "The Spotted Cow".
Verb
editgallopade (third-person singular simple present gallopades, present participle gallopading, simple past and past participle gallopaded)
- To gallop, as on horseback.
- To perform the dance called gallopade.