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† poˈmada, poˈmado Obs.
Also 7 pommada, -ado, pom(m)ade.
[a. It. pomada, -ata (Florio), f. pomo pommel of a saddle: see -ada. In form pomm-, after F. pommade; see also -ado.]
An exercise of vaulting upon or over a horse by placing one hand on the pommel of the saddle.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden 28 Mercury..to inspire my pen with some of his nimblest Pomados and Sommersets. 1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. ii. i, How oft he hath done the whole or the halfe pommado in a seuen-night before. a1697Aubrey Brief Lives (1898) I. 418 He was..very..active. He did the pomado in the saddle of the third horse in his armour. 1706Phillips, Pomada. 1727–41Chambers Cycl., Pomada, an exercise of vaulting the wooden horse, by laying one hand over the pommel of the saddle. |