croupade
English
Etymology
From French croupe (“hind quarters”).
Noun
croupade (plural croupades)
- A leap in which the horse pulls its hind legs up towards the belly.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for croupade in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)