gambade

Borrowed from French gambade.

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 8728872, lines 47, 61–65, page 63:

     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.

• gambado

• megabad

See jambe (“leg”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑ̃.bad/

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• Homophones: gambadent, gambades

gambade f (plural gambades)

1. frolic, gambol

gambade

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

• “gambade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.