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trippant

American  
[trip-uhnt] / ˈtrɪp ənt /

adjective

Heraldry.

  1. (of a deer or the like) represented in the act of walking.

    a stag trippant.

Etymology

Origin of trippant

1650–60; alteration of tripping; see -ant

Example Sentences

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On a field tenney a buck, trippant, proper, unattired.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

Robinson of Yorkshire, as borne by Lord Rokeby: Vert, on a cheveron or, between three bucks trippant of the last, as many quatrefoils gules.

From Notes and Queries, Number 228, March 11, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various

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