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gambade

gambade noun: the leap of a horse.

Noun

gambade (plural gambades)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) The leap of a horse.
  2. (Scotland, obsolete) A prank or frolic.
    • He made his hawke to fly, […]
      And in the holy place
      She mutyd there a chase
      Upon my corporas face.
      Such sacrificium laudis
      He made with suche gambawdis.c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 47, 61–65
    • How strange and yet how good it was to thread those narrow passages once more! Their suffocating constriction and padded, ladderlike steps summoned up a thousand memories of gambades and trysts: coursing the white wolves, scourging the prisoners of the antechamber, reencountering Oringa.1987, Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 243–244

Synonyms of gambade

Forms of gambade

pluralgambades

Origin of gambade

Borrowed from French gambade.

Questions about gambade

What does gambade mean?
Gambade means the leap of a horse.
What part of speech is gambade?
Gambade is a noun.
What is the plural of gambade?
The plural of gambade is gambades.

Words near gambade in the dictionary

  1. gamays
  2. gamb
  3. gamba
  4. gambada
  5. gambadas
  6. gambade
  7. gambades
  8. gambado
  9. gambadoed
  10. gambadoes
  11. gambadoing

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