Gambado

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A low leap of a horse in which all four feet leave the ground.
  • n. A leaping or gamboling movement.
  • n. Either of a pair of protective leather gaiters attached to a saddle.
  • n. A rider's legging.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Either of a pair of protective leather gaiters on a saddle
  • n. gambade (leaping movement)
  • Word Usage
    "We dance here in Apia a most fearful and wonderful quadrille, I don’t know where the devil they fished it from; but it is rackety and prancing and embraceatory beyond words; perhaps it is best defined in Haggard’s expression of a gambado."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cape