The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calade \Ca*lade"\, n. [F.] A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches.
Wiktionary
n. A slope or declivity in a manège ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to its haunches.
Wikipedia
Calade is a French term for an harmonious, decorative and useful arrangement of medium-sized pebbles, fixed to the ground.
Rue en calade describes a road with a surface composed in this way — essentially a cobblestone road. These are found predominantly in the French region of Provence, and generally in the Mediterranean area.
The corresponding term in Italian is risseu.
Category:Types of roads
Usage examples of "calade".
The carriages did not overtake the Emperor until they came to La Calade, where he had arrived a quarter of an hour before with Amaudru.
During the seven or eight hours he passed at La Calade a considerable number of people had gathered roundthe inn, and manifested every disposition to proceed to some excess.
The Emperor, thus disguised, left the inn of La Calade, passing between two lines of spectators.