Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In heraldry, represented as walking or trotting, having usually one of the fore hoofs lifted and the other three on the ground: said of one of the beasts of chase, as the antelope or the hart. Also
tripping .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Her.) See
tripping , a., 2.
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- adjective heraldry
tripping
Etymologies
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Examples
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On a field tenney a buck, trippant, proper, unattired.
Bulldog on the premises. But he's a Trinity student. Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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On a field tenney a buck, trippant, proper, unattired.
Archive 2008-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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On a field tenney a buck, trippant, proper, unattired.
Ulysses 2003
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On a field tenney a buck, trippant, proper, unattired.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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It is said the trippant tread of Fate doth leave no print upon the sand to mark its passage, nor doth she sound a note of warning that the waiting hand may grasp her garments as she flies.
The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV Harris Dickson 1907
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Argent, with a fawn trippant on the battlements, proper, collared and lined.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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“_trippant_,” or sometimes the word “_tripping_” is substituted, No. 168: and when in rapid motion, they are “_courant_,” “_at speed_,” or sometimes described as “_in full course_,” No. 169.
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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COeifj 7 tJCn eifzn im 7 {a) tiltinm i\i adorned with flowers; between winch is another tabic archwifc, and upon this is fixed the paternal coat of arms of the Roths, being a ilag trippant gules, leaning againft a tree vert.
zentennum commented on the word trippant
from "tripping," like a deer's walk
August 23, 2009