gallopade

[ gal-uh-peyd ]

/ ˌgæl əˈpeɪd /

galop.

Origin of gallopade

1825–35; < French galopade, equivalent to galop(er) to gallop + -ade -ade¹

Presently doors were flung open, and there was an awful rushing downstairs, a gallopade.

The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] |George Borrow
Our craft is but indifferently well adapted for the gallopade.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66 No.406, August 1849 |Various
His gallopade was declared to be divine: he absolutely sailed in air.

The Young Duke |Benjamin Disraeli
A kind of swinging, gallopade waltz was the favourite dance, the cotillion not being much in vogue.

The Old Santa Fe Trail |Henry Inman

And I was forced to gallopade up and down that verandah till I felt half dead with fatigue.

Station Amusements |Lady Barker

gallopade

/ (ˌɡæləˈpeɪd) /

another word for galop