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Definition of Gallopades
1. gallopade [n] - See also: gallopade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gallopades
Literary usage of Gallopades
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mary Brandegee: An Autobiography by Ellen Peck (1865)
"straggles out every night with Dan, till twelve or one o'clock, — fires pistols
here till the air is rank with gunpowder, — and gallopades all over the ..."
2. The Musical World (1847)
"A succession of waltzes, quadrilles, gallopades, Volkas, &c. followed to the
strains of ... The instrumental music was good, and The overtures, gallopades, ..."
3. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"His orchestration is often most original, and so is his melody ; and except tlie
usual Italian gallopades, and a few reminiscences of "Tancredi," there is ..."
4. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1899)
"... and puff and pant in senseless gallopades : let us appreciate the joys of
idleness ; let us give a loose to silence; and having enjoyed this, ..."
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