croupade

[ kroo-peyd, kroo-peyd ]

noun

, Dressage.

1. a movement in which a horse jumps up from a pesade with all four legs drawn up under it and lands on four legs in the same place.

Word History and Origins

Origin of croupade¹

1840–50; < French (translation of Italian groppata ), equivalent to croupe croup ² + -ade -ade ¹

Example Sentences

Croupade, kroo-pād′, n. in the man�ge, a leap in which the horse draws up his hind-legs toward the belly.

From Project Gutenberg

You have your pattes d'araignee, your diligence de Lyon, your flanquette, your paresseuse, your postillionage, your negresse, your croupade, your pompoir, your cuissade, your ligottage and your florentine, none of which will bear elaboration here without provoking the wrath of Jesse Helms, even if his French is rusty.

From Time Magazine Archive

All that was required was a greater degree of care employed upon the habiliments of his disguises; and the lord-lieutenant might have been detected joining in a rondeau with a singing girl, acting the fanfaron with a Hector, performing a daring croupade with a rope-dancer, or tripping to the sound of an Italian theorbo.

From Project Gutenberg