gambade

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The frosty morning air made Rataplan's great black limbs and the beautiful curves of his back and sides gleam and shimmer with every gambade.

From The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

I should think it would! after yesterday's gambade, What did Mr. Carlisle say to you, I should like to know?

From The Old Helmet, Volume I by Warner, Susan

And to the intense delight of the Close people, nine-tenths of whom were at their windows, Mr. Swainson executed an ungainly kind of gambade upon the steps.

From For the Cause by Weyman, Stanley J.