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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

... to the horses, and the team moved forward slowly. They had not been out of the stable for several days and were inclined to dance and prance. They stepped in among the tree branches and then one animal ...

— The Rover Boys on the Farm - or Last Days at Putnam Hall • Arthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)

... blind of both eyes, and cannot see a dragon any more, and only shies, now and then, when it comes to a place where it saw one long ago. There is an element of insincerity in these occasional frights which does not escape the clear-eyed critic. It gets scared at the wrong times, and forgets to prance when prancing is absolutely ...

— By the Christmas Fire • Samuel McChord Crothers

... "sweet" with "fleet," "rosy" with "posy," and "heart" with "part," and cudgelled his brains for images and conceits that would express in some scant measure the charms of pretty Mistress Dorothy Dawe. But his lines would not prance and curvet as he wished them to do; they laboured along in a heavy, cart-horse fashion, so that Johnnie at length reluctantly recalled his wandering wits to the consideration of the practical things of life. And, immediately ...

— Sea-Dogs All! - A Tale of Forest and Sea • Tom Bevan

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

— Home Life of Great Authors • Hattie Tyng Griswold

... feature is the antique Palace of the Commune: Gothic arcades of stone below, surmounted by a brick building with wonderfully delicate and varied terra-cotta work in the round-arched windows. Before this facade, on the marble pavement, prance the bronze equestrian statues of two Farnesi—insignificant men, exaggerated horses, flying drapery—as barocco as it is possible to be in style, but so splendidly toned with verdigris, so superb in their bravura attitude, and so happily placed in ...

— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece • John Addington Symonds

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