galop
(ˈgæləp)
Formerly also galope, -oppe.
[a. F. galop: see gallop n. (Earlier in the present century, Fr. had galope fem. in this sense.)]
‘A lively dance in 2–4 time, originally a separate and independent dance, but now also forming a portion of a set of quadrilles’ (Stainer & Barrett).
| 1837 Hamilton's Dict. Mus. Terms (ed. 4), Galop (German). Galoppe (French), a quick species of dance, generally in {twoon4} time. 1840 Hood Up Rhine 17, I could not help associating its regular tramp, tramp, tramp, with the tune of a galoppe I had recently performed. 1864 in Webster (galop), and in later Dicts. |
Hence ˈgalop, v., to dance a galop.
| 1840 T. Hook in New Monthly Mag. LVIII. 155 They dance quadrilles fatiguingly, and galope as if they were going to fly out of the windows. |