Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A lively dance in duple time, popular in the 1800s.
- noun The music for this dance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete spelling of
gallop . - noun An obsolete spelling of
gallop . - noun [F.]
- noun A lively round dance of German origin.
- noun Music for such a dance, or in its rhythm, which is duple and quick.
- To dance the galop. See
galop , n., 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A kind of lively dance, in 2-4 time; also, the music to the dance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
lively French country dance of the nineteenth century, a forerunner of thepolka , combining aglissade with achassé on alternate feet, usually in a fast 2/4 time.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The galop is another fashionable dance this winter.
Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
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My waltz is the _Deux temps_, for the simple reason that the _Deux temps_ does also for the galop, that is, it does for my galop.
Happy-Thought Hall 1876
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The 10 accomplished children of the Royal Danish Ballet school on tour in New York got only a brief chance to perform in the final "galop" of "Napoli—Act III."
Neapolitan Sunshine Brightens Danish Gloom Robert Greskovic 2011
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The 10 accomplished children of the Royal Danish Ballet school on tour in New York got only a brief chance to perform in the final "galop" of "Napoli—Act III."
Neapolitan Sunshine Brightens Danish Gloom Robert Greskovic 2011
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Robert Macaire, threading the galop with Malaga in the dress of a savage, her head garnished with plumes like the horse of a hearse, and bounding through the crowd like a will-o-the-wisp.
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Robert Macaire, threading the galop with Malaga in the dress of a savage, her head garnished with plumes like the horse of a hearse, and bounding through the crowd like a will-o-the-wisp.
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For the “rugissements et bondissements, bacchanale et saturnale, galop infernal, ronde du sabbat tout le tremblement,” these words give a most clear, untranslatable idea of the Carnival ball.
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What a famous room for a galop! — it will hold the whole shire.
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The pair danced away with great agility and contentment, — first a waltz, then a galop, then a waltz again, until, in the second waltz, they were bumped by another couple who had joined the Terpsichorean choir.
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Misha, it is true, exacted a promise from him to ‘grant all sorts of immunities’ to the peasants; but an hour later, this same Misha, together with Timofay, both drunk, were dancing a galop in the big apartments, which still seemed pervaded by the
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