1. A lively dance in duple meter, popular in the 19th century, characterized by a hopping or galloping step.
Usage: historical; usually plural or used as a mass noun
2. Music composed for or in the style of the gallopade dance.
Usage: historical

Examples

• The orchestra played a spirited gallopades that set the dancers in motion.
• Victorian ballrooms often featured gallopades as entertainment for guests.
• She learned to dance the gallopades at her finishing school.
• The composer wrote several gallopades for piano in the Romantic era.
• Gallopades were particularly popular in France and Germany during the 1800s.