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gallopade, n.|gæləˈpeɪd|
Also galopade, galloppade.
[a. F. galopade, f. galoper to gallop: cf. galop.]
1. A lively kind of dance, of Hungarian origin.
1831Ld. Houghton in Wemyss Reid Life (1891) I. 104 The Germans put my waltzing to shame..and actually scoff at my gallopade. 1835L. Hunt Capt. Sword iii. 13 The galopade, strange agreeable tramp, Made of a scrape, a hobble, and stamp. 1879G. Meredith Egoist III. xii. 249 He thought her a delightful partner for a dance, and found her rather tiresome at the end of the galloppade.
transf.1831Westm. Rev. XIV. 181 In an early number we printed an account of this gentleman's ‘gallopades’ across the thistly plains of South America.
2. In the manège: A sidelong or curveting kind of gallop.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Gallopade.
Hence galloˈpade v. rare, to dance a gallopade; galloˈpading vbl. n.
1831Westm. Rev. XIV. 424 She waltzes, gallopades, sings, plays, draws. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xi, Then a tremendous gallopading, in which Tailtackle was nearly capsized over the wharf. 1842Tennyson Amphion 40 The shock-head willows two and two By rivers gallopaded. |