galop
Americannoun
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a lively round dance in duple time.
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a piece of music for, or in the rhythm of, this dance.
noun
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a 19th-century couple dance in quick duple time
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a piece of music composed for this dance
Etymology
Origin of galop
1830–40; < French galop; see gallop
Example Sentences
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Rossini's familiar warhorse – done without sentimentality and without scrambling the final galop – sounded fresh and new minted.
From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2013
A gendarme, urging his horse to a galop, arrived at full speed.
From The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence by Sue, Eug?ne
"It would be dangerous to return"; and hurrying the Abbé into the carriage which awaited them, he bade the coachman speed them away "au grand galop!"
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
Adair soon recovered his spirits, and Jack laughed as he watched him whirling round and round in the valse, or prancing away in the galop with true Hibernian vehemence.
From The Three Commanders by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell
If Medford can only play a galop, and if Miss Bella will give up Milburd, or Milburd give her up, why je suis son homme.
From Happy-Thought Hall by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir
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