trippant

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English

three bucks trippant

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Etymology

From trip +‎ -ant, alteration of tripping, present participle of trip. Compare Scots trippand (“tripping”), present participle of trip (“to skip, go nimbly, trip”).

Adjective

trippant (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry) Represented as walking or trotting, usually with one of the forehooves lifted while the remaining three are on the ground.
    • 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry:
      Richard Davies, Esq. of Kent, 1833.] Davison, gu. a stag, trippant, or.
    • 1830, Thomas Robson, The British Herald, page 82:
      Crest, a buck roe-bucks, trippant, or, as many quatrefoils gu.
    • 1844, John Burke, Bernard Burke, Encyclopædia of Heraldry, page 349:
      a buck trippant within an orle   three bucks trippant

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French

Adjective

trippant (feminine trippante, masculine plural trippants, feminine plural trippantes)

  1. (slang) trippy
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