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Definition of Falcade
1. n. The action of a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets.
Definition of Falcade
1. Noun. A horse's movement of throwing itself on its haunches two or three times, bending in very quick curvets. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Falcade
1. a leaping motion of a horse [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Falcade
Literary usage of Falcade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sportsman's Dictionary: Or, The Country Gentleman's Companion, in All ...Sports (1735)
"EYRIE [in Falconry], a brood, or neft, a place where hawks build and hatch their
young. FAL falcade; a ... A falcade therefore, is this ..."
2. A French-English Military Technical Dictionary: With a Supplement Containing by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1917)
"... faix, m., burden, load, weight; tuile , ridge tile. falaise, f., (top.)
cliff; shorn cliff, bluff; headland. falcade, f., (man.) falcade; quick curvet. ..."
3. Holidays in Tyrol by Walter White (1876)
"... but so deep down thai they seem to belong to a pleasanter world than this
rough mountain. The direct route from Moena to falcade crosses San Pel- ..."
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