Meaning of gallopade | Babel Free

Definitions

1. gallop
   obsolete
2. A type of dance, also known as the galop.
3. The music for this kind of dance.

Examples

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

“They were a regular series of thumpings from the interior of the house, occasioned by the violent rocking of a cradle upon a stone floor, to which movement a feminine voice kept time by singing, in a vigorous gallopade, the favourite ditty of "The Spotted Cow".”

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