trippant
adjEtymology From trip + -ant, alteration of tripping, present participle of trip. Compare Scots trippand (“tripping”), present participle of trip (“to skip, go nimbly, trip”).
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Government, Heraldry, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Monarchy, Nobility, Politics Represented as walking or trotting, usually with one of the forehooves lifted while the remaining three are on the ground.
- [Borne by the late 1737.] Richard Davies, Esq. of Kent, 1833.] Davison, gu. a stag, trippant, or.1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry:
- Crest, a buck roe-bucks, trippant, or, as many quatrefoils gu.1830, Thomas Robson, The British Herald, page 82:
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- a buck trippant within an orle […] three bucks trippant […]1844, John Burke, Bernard Burke, Encyclopædia of Heraldry, page 349:
- Derived terms
- countertrippant, trippant-counter