tripudiumn.

1909 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.

1922 W. R. Halliday Lect. Hist. Rom. Relig. iii. 46 A feature of this procession was the dancing of the armed priests... Their leaping dance, the tripudium or three step, was accompanied by the clashing of rods or spears against the shields.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. iii. [Proteus] 49 The foot that beat the ground in tripudium.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 534 He runs to the piano and takes his ashplant, beating his foot in tripudium.

1923 L. Pullan Relig. since Reform. viii. 239 The Tübingen school attempted..at the same time ‘to force Christian history into the Hegelian tripudium of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis’.

1938 B. Schönberg tr. C. Sachs World Hist. Dance vii. 246 The weapon dances of the warriors and the priests of Mars who were grouped together under the name of Salii, which is equivalent to saltantes or dancers... The Salii stamped..in repetends of three beats... From this tripedal character their dance takes the name of tripudium. As a choral dance..it had a dance leader whose movements were answered by the two choruses of older and younger men as they walked around in a circle to the rhythmical beating of the shields.

1949 Oxf. Classical Dict. 789/1 At certain spots they [sc. the Salii] halted and performed elaborate ritual dances (tripudium, cf. Plut. Num. 13), beating their shields with their staves.