trippant

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adjective

Represented as walking or trotting, usually with one of the forehooves lifted while the remaining three are on the ground.

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Meanings

adjectivetrippant (not comparable)

alternative tripping

  1. not comparablegovernmentRepresented as walking or trotting, usually with one of the forehooves lifted while the remaining three are on the ground.

    Crest, a buck roe-bucks, trippant, or, as many quatrefoils gu.

    1830, Thomas Robson, The British Herald, page 82
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    [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

    a buck trippant within an orle […] three bucks trippant […]

    1844, John Burke, Bernard Burke, Encyclopædia of Heraldry, page 349

Origin

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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APA

trippant. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trippant

MLA

“trippant.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trippant. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “trippant,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trippant.

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