gallopade

plural gallopades · alternative galoppade · alternative galopade

1. obsoletegallop

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

   1898, Henry Francis Keenan, The Iron Game

2. A type of dance, also known as the galop.
3. The music for this kind of dance.

   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".

   1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 28

present singular third person gallopades · participle present gallopading · participle past gallopaded · past gallopaded · alternative galoppade · alternative galopade

1. To gallop, as on horseback.
2. To perform the dance called gallopade.