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trippant

trippant adjective: represented as walking or trotting, usually with one of the forehooves lifted while the remaining three are on the ground.

trippant: represented as walking or trotting, usually with one of the forehooves lifted while the remaining...
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Adjective

trippant (not comparable)

  1. Represented as walking or trotting, usually with one of the forehooves lifted while the remaining three are on the ground.
    • [Borne by the late 1737.] Richard Davies, Esq. of Kent, 1833.] Davison, gu. a stag, trippant, or.1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry
    • Crest, a buck roe-bucks, trippant, or, as many quatrefoils gu.1830, Thomas Robson, The British Herald, page 82

Forms of trippant

alternative formtripping

Origin of trippant

From trip + -ant, alteration of tripping, present participle of trip. Compare Scots trippand (“tripping”), present participle of trip (“to skip, go nimbly, trip”).

Words formed from trippant

Questions about trippant

What does trippant mean?
Trippant means represented as walking or trotting, usually with one of the forehooves lifted while the remaining three are on the ground.
What part of speech is trippant?
Trippant is an adjective.

Words near trippant in the dictionary

  1. tripotent
  2. tripotential
  3. Tripp
  4. Tripp County
  5. trippable
  6. trippant
  7. Trippe
  8. tripped
  9. tripped balls
  10. tripped from the tongue
  11. tripped out

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