Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gambade

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gam-bade
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The leap of a horse.

Obsolete

noun

A prank or frolic.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Etymology

Borrowed from French gambade.

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

gambades (plural)

Synonyms

gambado

Questions

What does gambade mean?: The leap of a horse.
Where does gambade come from?: Borrowed from French gambade.

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