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Prance

noun

A proud stiff pompous gait. Synonyms: strut, swagger.

verb

(past & past part. pranced; pres. part. prancing)

To walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others. Synonyms: cock, ruffle, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup.

Spring forward on the hind legs.

Cause (a horse) to bound spring forward.

Ride a horse such that it springs and bounds forward.

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"Prance" Quotes from Famous Books

... tossed up the smouldering ashes as we advanced, the hot red cinders causing them to prance. The smoke pained our eyes, and prevented us from seeing far ahead; but we guided ourselves as well as we could towards the point where we had last seen the trapper, and where we expected to ...

— The War Trail - The Hunt of the Wild Horse • Mayne Reid

... Thou felon, follow here: To bridal bed we ride; And thou shalt prance a fetter dance Before me ...

— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers

... the glittering tops Of snow-peaked mounts, the wid'ning vale's expanse, Large prairies where free herds of horses prance, Exhaustless wealth of crops, In ...

— The Poems of Emma Lazarus - Vol. I (of II.), Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic • Emma Lazarus

... tell you. I call the horse Babylon because he's such an old ruin. But I don't believe any one ever rode him before; he didn't seem to know what it was all about. He was very bony, too, and he stuck out in places. I suppose we would have gotten along all right if I hadn't tried to make him prance. He wouldn't do it, ...

— The Net • Rex Beach

... she quite frankly hated. But, then, people said that Rose Stribling, twelve years younger than Corinna and as handsome as a Red Cross poster, had run too often across Kent Page in the first year of the war. Kent Page had died in Prance of Spanish influenza before he ever saw a trench or a battlefield; and Rose Stribling, all blue eyes and white linen, had nursed him at the last. At that time Corinna was in America, and she hadn't so much as looked at Kent for years; but a woman has a long memory for emotions, and she is ...

— One Man in His Time • Ellen Glasgow

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