Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To gallop; move about briskly; perform the dance called a gallopade.
  • noun In the manège, a sidelong or curveting kind of gallop.
  • noun A sprightly kind of dance, or the music adapted to it. See galop.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun I horsemanship, a sidelong or curveting kind of gallop.
  • noun A kind of dance; also, music to the dance; a galop.
  • intransitive verb To gallop, as on horseback.
  • intransitive verb To perform the dance called gallopade.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete gallop
  • noun A type of dance, also known as the galop
  • verb To gallop, as on horseback.
  • verb To perform the dance called gallopade.

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Examples

  • The skill with which he modulates from the comedic gallopade of the first act to the bitter eloquence of the final scene is beyond explaining: All I can do is admire the results.

    They, Too, Sing America Terry Teachout 2010

  • The Isaac Newton's steam-whistle had sent up the curtain; the overture had followed with strains Der-Frei-schutzy in the Adirondacks, pastoral in the valleys of Vermont and New Hampshire, funebral and andante in the fogs of Mollychunkamug; now it was to end in an allegretto gallopade, and the drama would open.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

  • We like the notion of a charitable quadrille -- or a benevolent waltz; and it delights us to see a philanthropic design set on foot, through the medium of a gallopade.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841 Various

  • Of these, the best known, which I might mention, are the tarantella of the Neapolitans, the bolero and fandango of the Spaniards, the mazurka and cracovienna of Poland, the cosack of Russia, the redowa of Bohemia, the quadrille and cotillion of France, the waltz, polka and gallopade of Germany, the reel and sword dance of Scotland, the minuet and hornpipe of England, the jig of Ireland, and the last to capture America is the tango.

    The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen Roger Thompson Finlay

  • It is notorious that many of the leases of new dwelling-houses contain a clause against dancing, lest the premises should suffer from a mazurka, tremble at a gallopade, or fall prostrate under the inflictions of "the parson's farewell," or "the wind that shakes the barley."

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832 Various

  • So while he was credited with the intention of bringing out Stabat Mater waltzes -- by no means a difficult feat with Rossini's work -- and a Dead March gallopade, we must never forget that he was the first conductor to introduce symphonic music to the masses and the authentic pioneer of the movement which Sir Henry Wood has carried on at the Queen's Hall for the last twenty years and more.

    Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

  • But how varied, how ingenious in incident, how full of funny gesture and dry discrimination, is this undergraduate epic; with such a gay gallopade of mortality and such decorative archaism of expression, and such a solicitude for words.

    Zuleika Dobson 1911

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

    The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • Archipelago, they passed the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, stirring the two narrow passageways with the violence of their invisible gallopade and making a turn at the bowl of the Black Sea, swimming back, decimated but impetuous, to the depths of the Mediterranean.

    Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

  • Then, after a moment, "Now, I kin," he added, as the wind brought to their ears the oft-told tale of the rabbit's gallopade in the pea-patch.

    In the Tennessee mountains, pseud. Charles Egbert Craddock 1885

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  • a kind of dance, or music to the dance

    June 28, 2008

  • Obviously I need to go to more interesting dance venues.

    Vamos a bailar?

    November 12, 2014

  • You know the most entertaining kind of dance hall would be one with qms limericks about the various dances projected on a big screen, for us wallflowers to read while, ummm, you know.

    November 12, 2014

  • Sounds like a lot more fun than the gantelope.

    November 12, 2014

  • Good name for an energy drink that makes you break into a run.

    November 12, 2014

  • For a quieter drink while dancing, try serenade. No added HFCS.

    November 12, 2014

  • They rim round the floor in every hall,
    Those flowers that nod along the wall.
    But give them a chance
    To break into dance!
    They’ll shed their petals once for all.

    November 12, 2014

  • Do you suppose a drink of palisade will make you strut like a prince?

    November 12, 2014

  • *applause*

    November 13, 2014

  • You are kind, bilby. May you sweep some sweet senorita off her feet.

    November 13, 2014

  • Drink escapade to get away from it all.

    November 13, 2014

  • feet-a!

    November 19, 2014