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▪ I. gambado1|gæmˈbeɪdəʊ|
Chiefly in pl. gambadoes, -ados. Also 7 gambada's, 8 gambades (?), 9 dial. gambaders. See also gambage.
[f. It. gamba leg + -ado.]
A kind of large boot or gaiter, attached to a saddle, to protect the rider's legs and feet from the wet or cold. In later use sometimes applied to leather leggings or overalls fastened with clasps.
1656Blount Glossogr., Gambado, a kind of leather instrument affixed to the Saddle in the place of Stirrops. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) I. 318 Gambadoes, much worn in the west, whereby, whilst one rides on horseback, his legs are in a coach, clean and warm. 1661F. Hawkins Youths Behav. G 1, Gambada's [ed. 1663 gambagas], large leather cases or stirrups to keep the legs clean in riding. 1732Swift Corr. Wks. 1841 II. 682, I make a shift to ride about ten miles a-day by virtue of certain implements called gambadoes, where my feet stand firm as on a floor. 1781Gentl. Mag. Apr. 186 ‘Who made you those shoes? Mine are clumsy and thick as a pair of gambadoes.’ 1814Scott Wav. xxix, His thin legs tenanted a pair of gambadoes, fastened at the sides with rusty clasps. Thus accoutred, he stalked into the midst of the apartment. 1823Ann. Reg. 316* Improvements in constructing gambadoes, or mud boots. 1865Leslie & Taylor Sir J. Reynolds I. 3 So absent, that riding on horseback in a pair of gambados, he dropped one by the way without missing it. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Gambaders, a kind of leather shield or case for the legs of a horseman. They are attached to the stirrup-leathers..They were very common within the writer's recollection.
▪ II. gambado2|gæmˈbeɪdəʊ|
Chiefly in pl. gambados, -oes. Also more correctly gambadas.
[a. Sp. gambada = F. gambade: see gambol n.]
1. A bound or spring (of a horse): = gambade 1.
1820Scott Monast. xix, The discretion of the animal's pace would be no longer disturbed by the gambadoes of Sir Piercie and his prancing war-horse. 1843Lytton Last Bar. iv. vii, Anthony..made his horse back to the end of the lists, in a series of graceful gambadas and caracols.
2. A fantastic movement, as in dancing or leaping about; a caper.
1859Sala Gas-light & D. xxiii, A fantastic imp..on whose brow is written ‘Analysis’..executes maniacal gambadoes on the quartern loaves..uttering yells about chalk, alum, and dead men's bones. 1881Daily Tel. 27 Dec., Whose contortions and gambados during his struggles with his captors..are as comic as they are nimble and graceful.
3. fig. Any sudden or fantastic action.
1857C. Brontë Professor xiii, Sending him a challenge or performing other gambadoes of the sort. 1865Daily Tel. 7 Dec. 7/1 Before fighting a battle of this sort in a Scotch court, there are, of course, all kinds of preliminary judicial flourishes and gambadoes. 1891Stevenson in Pall Mall G. 17 Nov. 6/2 The correspondence was still passing when the president surprised Apia with a fresh gambado.
Hence gamˈbado v. intr., to prance, caper.
1829[J. R. Best] Pers. & Lit. Mem. 181 Seeing him gambadoing on the race-course, I turned my horse's head another way. 1847Thackeray Christmas Bks. (1872) 30 He sticks his thumbs into the armholes of his waistcoat, and advances, retreats, pirouettes and otherwise gambadoes. 1872[Earl Pembroke & G. H. Kingsley] S. Sea Bubbles viii. 228 There was my princess with five others..frisking and gambadoing in the most fearful manner. |