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noun
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.
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noun
The music for a dance of this kind.
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verb
To dance the galop.
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History
From French galop; named after the fastest running gait of a horse (see gallop), a shortened version of the original term galoppade.
