English
gambade
Gambade comes from French gambade.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentgambade
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1503–1512same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentgambade
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1503–1512same form
Earliest quotation: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood: “He made his hawke to fly, […] And in…”
Every English word from French gambade
Today it means
noun The leap of a horse.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French gambade / gambade