calade

Borrowed from French calade.

calade (plural calades)

1. A slope or declivity in a manège ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to its haunches.
   • 1735, The Sportsman's Dictionary:

     Work your horse in a calade, after the Italian way; ride him straight, and then you make good use of the calade.

• alcade

• IPA^(key): /ka.lad/

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calade f (plural calades)

1. a harmonious, decorative and useful arrangement of medium-sized pebbles, fixed to the ground

• “calade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• décala

calade

1. second-person plural imperative of calar