Oct. 23rd, 2017

estrapade

Oct. 23rd, 2017 07:49 am
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estrapade (es-struh-PAID) - n., the rearing, plunging, and kicking actions of a horse trying to get rid of its rider.


From French, from Italian strappado, but what a strap has to do with it is obscure to me.

---L.
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