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