gallopades

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

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