Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A prancing horse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A horse which prances.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person or animal (especially a
horse ) thatprances
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mettlesome or fiery horse
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Examples
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Cheri, aka LuvToSpin, is a prancer and a hoop dancer.
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They had dasher, dancer, prancer, sort of were walking them through the process.
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And now, that my beloved seems secure in my net, for my project upon the vixen Miss Howe, and upon her mother: in which the officious prancer Hickman is to come in for a dash.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Had I but known, I could have made twenty shifts; nay, for that matter, and in so good a cause, I would have thought little to have prigged a prancer from the next common — it had but been sending back the brute to the headborough.
Kenilworth 2004
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Ruha's prancer clattered through the dark gateway of Moonstorm House into a spacious, hexagonal courtyard of ornamental trees and twining garden pathways.
The Veiled Dragon Denning, Troy 1996
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By turns, she is a coquettish girl, a vampy prancer, a burlesque queen, a swinging Florrie Dorrie.
Tessie and Pearlie JOY HOROWITZ 1996
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One of the packhorses screamed, and the witch's prancer stumbled as the train slowed.
The Veiled Dragon Denning, Troy 1996
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She lashed her mount with the ends other reins, urging the exhausted Shou prancer into the ragged semblance of a gallop.
The Veiled Dragon Denning, Troy 1996
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The horse, Swallow by name, was a fine animal of Tairen breeding, with slender ankles and an arched neck, a prancer with the look of speed and endurance both, though shod too lightly for Perrin's taste.
The Shadow Rising Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1992
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The fifteenth a prancer, whose courage is small, [20]
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer
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