gambade

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French gambade.

Noun

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gambade (plural gambades)

  1. (Scotland or obsolete) The leap of a horse.
  2. (Scotland or obsolete) A prank or frolic.
    • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 47, 61–65:
      He made his hawke to fly, []
      And in the holy place
      She mutyd there a chase
      Upon my corporas face.
      Such sacrificium laudis
      He made with suche gambawdis.
      He made his hawk to fly, []
      And in the holy place (altar)
      She dropped a fall of dung there
      Upon my communion cloth’s face.
      Such a sacrifice of praise
      He made with such pranks.
    • 1987, Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 243–244:
      How strange and yet how good it was to thread those narrow passages once more! Their suffocating constriction and padded, ladderlike steps summoned up a thousand memories of gambades and trysts: coursing the white wolves, scourging the prisoners of the antechamber, reencountering Oringa.

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French

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Etymology

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See jambe (leg).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gambade f (plural gambades)

  1. frolic, gambol

Verb

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gambade

  1. inflection of gambader:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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