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verb

Prance v. i. (past & past part. pranced; pres. part. prancing)

To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle. "Now rule thy prancing steed."

To ride on a prancing horse; to ride in an ostentatious manner. "The insulting tyrant prancing o'er the field."

To walk or strut about in a pompous, showy manner, or with warlike parade.

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Etymology of 'Prance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Prance" Quotes from Famous Books

... was that while Somerset was contenting himself with border raids, instead of espousing the cause of the Castilians, Prance was acting. About the beginning of July a French fleet appeared off St. Andrews; at the end of the month the castle surrendered. English ships might have prevented this, but the Protector elected instead to prepare a great invasion. In September he was over the border, in command ...

— England Under the Tudors • Arthur D. Innes

... accordingly in all obeisance I did gee up, and danced and pranced (like an old dolt as I am) at the pleasance of that my driver. It seems me that Mistress Edith hath said "Gee up!" yet once again, and given the old brown mare a cut of her whip. I therefore have no choice but to prance: and if any into whose hands this book may fall hereafter shall reckon me a silly old woman, I hereby do them to wit that their account tallieth to one farthing with ...

— Joyce Morrell's Harvest - The Annals of Selwick Hall • Emily Sarah Holt

... What would they think, she wondered, if they knew that her hopes centered on this very stallion? Silence had spread over the field. The whisper of Corson seemed loud. "Look how still the range hosses stand. They know what's ahead. And look at them fool bays prance!" ...

— Alcatraz • Max Brand

... buffaloes and go on the warpath in the mountain ranges and the trackless great plains of the Far West, and away in the future come back a great chief, bristling with feathers, hideous with paint, and prance into Sunday-school, some drowsy summer morning, with a bloodcurdling war-whoop, and sear the eyeballs of all his companions with unappeasable envy. But no, there was something gaudier even than this. He would be a pirate! That was it! NOW his future lay plain before him, ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... writer. An ass once had the golden image of the Goddess Isis set on his back, and he was led through the streets of a city in Egypt. Then the Egyptians fell down on their faces and worshipped, and raised their hands in supplication. The ass was puffed up with pride, and began to prick up his ears and prance. Then the driver brought down his stick upon his back, and said, "You ass! the honour is given not to you, but to what you bear." There is many a man who is no less elated by his position, or by some good fortune that falls to him, than this ass. The man of wealth holds up his ...

— The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent • S. Baring-Gould

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