gambado
1 Americannoun
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either of a pair of large protective boots or gaiters fixed to a saddle instead of stirrups.
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any long gaiter or legging.
noun
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a spring or leap by a horse.
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a caper or antic.
noun
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either of two leather holders for the feet attached to a horse's saddle-like stirrups
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either of a pair of leggings
noun
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dressage another word for curvet
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a leap or gambol; caper
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Etymology
Origin of gambado1
1650–60; < Italian gamb ( a ) leg + -ado -ade 1
Origin of gambado2
1810–20; probably a pseudo-Spanish alteration of French gambade a leap or spring, perhaps < Provençal cambado, gambado, equivalent to gamb ( a ) leg ( see jamb 1) + -ado -ade 1
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And to the intense delight of the Close people, many of whom were at their windows, Mr. Swainson executed an ungainly kind of gambado upon the steps.
From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.
The correspondence was still passing when the President surprised Apia with a fresh gambado.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
His legs were defended with strong leathern gambadoes, which, according to an antiquarian contrivance, opened at the sides, and were secured by steel clasps.
From The Monastery by Scott, Walter, Sir
By it are boots of all sizes, buskins, gamashes, brodkins, gambadoes, shoes, pumps, slippers, and every cobbled ware wrought and made steadable for the use of man.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
The painting represented a light helmet, a gorget, a pair of arm pieces, a pair of iron gauntlets, a pair of cuirasses, a pair of cuisses and gambadoes, a sword, a knife, and a lance.
From The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) by Vasari, Giorgio
By St. Bennet's boot, And his gambadoes, I'll never do't.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
But his affection for him was austere and stoical, and was not shown by gambadoes, larks, and lickings.
From My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19 by Gautier, Théophile
Outside, a moon, something bridal in its whiteness, beat down upon a kicked-up stretch of beach, the banana-skins, the pop-corn boxes, the gambados of erstwhile revelers violently printed into its sands.
From Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It by Hurst, Fannie
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