| 单词 | prance |
| 释义 | prance (once / 2042 pages) vn When you prance, you swagger around with exaggerated, proud movements. If you've seen many rock concerts, you've seen people prance around onstage. When people prance, they're showing off, strutting for the benefit of their audience. Horses prance too, with a gait that's also a little artificial, using high, springy steps. You might prance a little when you run up on stage to accept an award, and a show horse might be equally inclined to prance as it moves past the judges. The horse gait definition is the original meaning of prance, and it probably comes from the Middle English pranken, "to show off." WORD FAMILYprance: pranced, prancer, prances, prancing+/prancer: prancers USAGE EXAMPLESAnd for silliness, there was Procol Harum’s “Conquistador” with the Forces of Nature dancers in bell-bottoms and fringed tops, prancing like some 1960s shindig. New York Times(Dec 21, 2016) Many of them sport stylized renderings of leaping fish, lumbering elephants, soaring birds, prancing female nudes and prowling or preening panthers. Seattle Times(Dec 19, 2016) The “s” struggling to hang on at the end of “Happy Holidays” fell, exhausted, and was trampled beneath thousands of tiny, pawing, prancing reindeer hooves. Washington Post(Dec 12, 2016) 1v to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others Syn|Hyper cock, ruffle, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup walk use one's feet to advance; advance by steps 2v spring forward on the hind legs The young horse was prancing in the meadow Hyper go, locomote, move, travel change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically 3v ride a horse such that it springs and bounds forward Hyper ride horseback ride on horseback 4v cause (a horse) to bound spring forward Hyper ride, sit sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions 5n a proud stiff pompous gait Syn|Hyper strut, swagger gait a person's manner of walking |
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