gambade

See also: gambadé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French gambade.

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• gambado

Anagrams

• megabad

French

Etymology

See jambe (“leg”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑ̃.bad/

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• Homophones: gambadent, gambades

Noun

gambade f (plural gambades)

1. frolic, gambol

Verb

gambade

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

Further reading

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