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le•vade
(lə väd′),USA pronunciation n. [Dressage.]
- Sporta movement in which the horse first lowers its body on increasingly bent hocks, then sits on its hind hooves while keeping its forelegs raised and drawn in.
- French, equivalent. to lev(er) to raise + -ade -ade1
- German
- 1940–45