Definition of "gambades" [gambades]

• Plural form of gambade. (noun)

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• "The tall horses of the cavalry seemed hard and savage as their riders; they made no curvets or gambades."
• "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."
• "Mounted upon a horse as large, as black, and as forbidding as himself, he cantered slowly forward, with none of those prancings and gambades with which a cavalier was accustomed to show his command over his charger."