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gambades

gambades is the plural of gambade.

Meaning of gambade

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

Questions about gambades

What is gambades the plural of?
Gambades is the plural of gambade.

Words near gambades in the dictionary

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

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