Gallopade
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Gallopade is a noun meaning A type of dance, also known as the galop.
Meaning
A type of dance, also known as the galop.
More Meanings
- The music for this kind of dance.
- To gallop, as on horseback.
- To perform the dance called gallopade.
- (obsolete) gallop
Example Sentences
At the same instant the sounding gallopade of hoofs came from the tranquil roadway leading to the stables.
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".
Word Forms
- gallopades
- galoppade
- galopade
- gallopading
- gallopaded
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cavalcate, glope, tolutation, salt, paigle, vardingale.
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