Definition of "gallopade"

gallopade

noun
plural gallopades
1. (obsolete) gallop
  Quotations
  At the same instant the sounding gallopade of hoofs came from the tranquil roadway leading to the stables.
  1898, Henry Francis Keenan, The Iron Game‎
2. A type of dance, also known as the galop.
3. The music for this kind of dance.
  Quotations
  They were a regular series of thumpings from the interior of the house, occasioned by the violent rocking of a cradle upon a stone floor, to which movement a feminine voice kept time by singing, in a vigorous gallopade, the favourite ditty of "The Spotted Cow".
  1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 28
verb
third-person singular simple present gallopades, present participle gallopading, simple past and past participle gallopaded
1. To gallop, as on horseback.
2. To perform the dance called gallopade.