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Word entry · 6 letters

gambol

Best crossword clue

"Playful leap"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡæm.bəl/Part of speech noun, verbSorted abglmoStarts with GEnds with L1 clues
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Definitions

  1. gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement

Word origin

From earlier gambolde, from Middle French gambade (modern gambade).

Used in a sentence

  • The lawn spread freely onward, as of old, over which, in sweet company, he had once gambolled.
  • At our old pastimes in the hall ⁠We gambol’d, making vain pretence ⁠Of gladness, with an awful sense Of one mute Shadow watching all.
  • […] she remains near him to suckle him and teach him to choose the delicious grasses of the meadow, in which he gambols until he is grown.

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