gallopade

American  

[gal-uh-peyd] / ˌgæl əˈpeɪd /

Or galopade

noun

1. galop.

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gallopade British  

/ ˌɡæləˈpeɪd /

noun

1. another word for galop

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Etymology

Origin of gallopade

1825–35; < French galopade, equivalent to galop ( er ) to gallop + -ade -ade ¹

Example Sentences

Gallopade, gal-up-ād′, n. a quick kind of dance—then, the music appropriate to it: a sidewise gallop.—v.i. to move briskly: to perform a gallopade.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Everybody far and near is standing in attitude to gallopade.

From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda

He is looking quite as apprehensive at the thought that I shall expect him to gallopade with me, as I am at the thought that he will expect me to gallopade with him.

From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda

Flemming laughed outright; but it was not perceived by the Prince, because at that moment he was pushed aside, in the rush of a gallopade, and Flemming beheld his face no more.

From Hyperion by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Then, as we hear the pulse of the engine throbbing quicker and quicker, and the telegraph posts seem to have started off into a frantic gallopade along the line, we plunge into a plantation.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various