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

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gallopade

But everybody was fascinated by the breathlessness of the gallopade, the escapes from disaster.

From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes

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

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Hamilton Wright Mabie

I had to tell him, we said a horse "took the track," in racing, and as this lady came from a racing region, she might have used it, con amore, especially in the gallopade.

From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by James Fenimore Cooper

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

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

From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan