gallopade

English

Alternative forms

• galoppade

Noun

gallopade (plural gallopades)

1. (obsolete) gallop
   • 1898, Henry Francis Keenan, The Iron Game‎^[1]:

     At the same instant the sounding gallopade of hoofs came from the tranquil roadway leading to the stables.

2. A type of dance, also known as the galop.
3. The music for this kind of dance.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 28:

     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".

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.