FALCA'DE, noun [Latin falx, a sickle or sythe.]
A horse is said to make a falcade when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, as in very quick curvets; that is a falcade is a bending very low.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.