trippant
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From trip + -ant, alteration of tripping, present participle of trip. Compare Scots trippand (“tripping”), present participle of trip (“to skip, go nimbly, trip”).
Adjective edit
trippant (not comparable)
- (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:
- [Borne by the late 1737.] 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 […]
Derived terms edit
References edit
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “trippant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French edit
Adjective edit
trippant (feminine trippante, masculine plural trippants, feminine plural trippantes)