gambade

plural gambades

1. ScotlandobsoleteThe leap of a horse.
2. ScotlandobsoleteA 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.

   He made his hawk to fly, […] And in the holy place (altar) She dropped a fall of dung there Upon my communion cloth’s face. Such a sacrifice of praise He made with such pranks.

   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

   1 more example

   How strange and yet how good it was to thread those narrow passages once more! Their suffocating constriction and padded, ladderlike steps summoned up a thousand memories of gambades and trysts: coursing the white wolves, scourging the prisoners of the antechamber, reencountering Oringa.

   1987, Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 243–244