gallopade

or gal·o·pade

[ gal-uh-peyd ]

noun

Origin of gallopade

1
1825–35; <French galopade, equivalent to galop(er) to gallop + -ade-ade1

Words Nearby gallopade

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How to use gallopade in a sentence

  • The moment Willie was aboard the two horses whirled and charged down the winding road in a mad gallopade.

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  • Nor would it become you any better if you were to be dancing a gallopade, or clambering up trees in fits of love enthusiasm.

    A New Atmosphere | Gail Hamilton
  • Presently doors were flung open, and there was an awful rushing downstairs, a gallopade.

  • De Marmont had vainly tried in this wild gallopade to distinguish his rival's face among this mass of foreigners.

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  • Matters are growing worse and worse, and in another week we shall positively not have enough to get up a tolerable gallopade.

British Dictionary definitions for gallopade

gallopade

galopade

/ (ˌɡæləˈpeɪd) /


noun
  1. another word for galop

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