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† ˈgamond Sc. Obs. Forms: 6 gamount, galmound, -mand, gawmound. [from earlier gambat = F. gambade; see the forms under gambol n. The form may be due to some association with gamount = gammon n.1] A gambol, or leaping movement in dancing.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xxvi. 11 He bad gallandis ga graith a gyiss, And kast vp gamountis [M. gambauldis, R. galmandis] in the skyis, That last came out of France. 1535Lyndesay Satyre 452 Now hay! for ioy and mirth I dance. Tak thair ane gay gamond of France. a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 43 He lapp up mearely upoun the scaffold, and, casting a gawmound, said, ‘Whair ar the rest of the playaris?’ a1591Adamson in R. Ford Harp Perthsh. (1893) 4 Ay when I hit the mark I cast a gamound. Hence † ˈgamonding vbl. n.
1549Compl. Scot. vi. 66 It vas ane celest recreation to beheld ther lycht lopene, galmonding [orig. ed. galmouding], stendling bakuart and forduart. |