croupade

American  

[kroo-peyd, kroo-peyd] / kruˈpeɪd, ˈkru peɪd /

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.

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Etymology

Origin of croupade

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

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