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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A lively French country dance of the nineteenth century, a forerunner of the polka, combining a glissade with a chassé on alternate feet, usually in a fast 2/4 time.
2. 2
   music suitable for a galop dance wordnet
3. 3
   The music for a dance of this kind.

Verb

1. 1
   To dance the galop.

Etymology

From French galop; named after the fastest running gait of a horse (see gallop), a shortened version of the original term galoppade.

Related phrases

country dance

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