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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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... water-hole run dry—we always had a concertina in the house. It never failed to attract company. Paddy Maloney and the well-sinkers, after belting and blasting all day long, used to drop in at night, and throw the table outside, and take the girls up, and prance about the floor ...

— On Our Selection • Steele Rudd

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— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson

... him the ungyved prance By which his freezing feet he warms, And drag my lady's chain and dance,— The galley-slave ...

— Home Life of Great Authors • Hattie Tyng Griswold

... digging in the snow. The boys and Betty were here this morning, and we made a grand snow-house, but no one has come back to finish up." Charlotte looked out as she spoke and opened the window a crack to remind Irving that he couldn't prance around on top of the snow-house, because it wasn't strong enough ...

— Glenloch Girls • Grace M. Remick

... the saddle, and the horse reared and dashed toward the stable, but was soon pulled up. Then Graydon made him prance, curvet, and trot, Madge looking on with parted lips, and eyes glowing with delicious anticipation. If a close observer had been present he might have seen that the rider, with his fine easy grace and mastery, was, after ...

— A Young Girl's Wooing • E. P. Roe

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