Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The rearing or capering action of a horse.
- Rearing; bounding; capering; riding with gallant show.
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- verb Present participle of
prance . - adjective dated that prances
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Examples
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No scenario wherein prancing in a pink sportcorset can be construed as a politically neutral act.
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No scenario wherein prancing in a pink sportcorset can be construed as a politically neutral act.
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And this leaping and prancing is allegoric of his own leaping and prancing when, after the calamity of the shipwreck and after he had scoured the strand for sign of his shipboard companions and found none, save a pair of shoes that were not mates, he had understood he was cast up all alone on a savage island, likely to perish and with no hope of salvation.
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Who can forget Irwin prancing along the ropes slapping high-fives with the gallery after a 45-foot putt on the 72nd hole to get into
USATODAY.com - Irwin in U.S. Open lead, Tiger off to sluggish start 2001
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You boys ought to get out of the business of massive ideological machinations where your prancing is a liability and into the beauty business where you can let those peacock feathers fly.
Poppy King: Beauty and the Brain: 9 Leaks From the Beauty Business Poppy King 2010
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You boys ought to get out of the business of massive ideological machinations where your prancing is a liability and into the beauty business where you can let those peacock feathers fly.
Poppy King: Beauty and the Brain: 9 Leaks From the Beauty Business Poppy King 2010
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You boys ought to get out of the business of massive ideological machinations where your prancing is a liability and into the beauty business where you can let those peacock feathers fly.
Poppy King: 9 Leaks From the Beauty Business Poppy King 2010
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You boys ought to get out of the business of massive ideological machinations where your prancing is a liability and into the beauty business where you can let those peacock feathers fly.
Poppy King: 9 Leaks From the Beauty Business Poppy King 2010
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You boys ought to get out of the business of massive ideological machinations where your prancing is a liability and into the beauty business where you can let those peacock feathers fly.
Poppy King: Beauty and The Brain: 9 Leaks From The Beauty Business Poppy King 2010
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We arrived at Honolulu during the night, and, the steward afterwards said, spent the second half of it "prancing" up and down outside the bar, waiting for the dawn.
A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Mary Helen Fee
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