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gallopade

gallopade noun: gallop.

Noun

gallopade (plural gallopades)

  1. (obsolete) gallop
    • At the same instant the sounding gallopade of hoofs came from the tranquil roadway leading to the stables.1898, Henry Francis Keenan, The Iron Game
  2. A type of dance, also known as the galop.
  3. The music for this kind of dance.
    • 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".1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 28

Verb

gallopade (third-person singular simple present gallopades, present participle gallopading, simple past and past participle gallopaded)

  1. To gallop, as on horseback.
  2. To perform the dance called gallopade.

Forms of gallopade

Noun
pluralgallopades
alternative formgaloppade
alternative formgalopade
Verb
third-person singular presentgallopades
present participlegallopading
past participlegallopaded
pastgallopaded

Questions about gallopade

What does gallopade mean?
Gallopade means gallop.
What part of speech is gallopade?
Gallopade can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of gallopade?
The plural of gallopade is gallopades.

Words near gallopade in the dictionary

  1. gallooned
  2. galloons
  3. galloot
  4. galloots
  5. gallop
  6. gallopade
  7. gallopaded
  8. gallopades
  9. gallopading
  10. gallopamil
  11. galloped

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