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crou⋅pade

   [kroo-peyd, kroo-peyd]
–noun Dressage.
a movement in which a horse jumps up from a pesade with all four legs drawn up under it and lands on four legs in the same place.
Origin:
1840–50; < F (trans. of It groppata), equiv. to croupe croup 2 + -ade -ade 1
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Croupade

Crou*pade"\ (kr??-p?d"), n. [F., fr. croupe hind quarters.] (Man.) A leap in which the horse pulls up his hind legs toward his belly.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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