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prancer

ˈprænsər
WordNet
Interesting fact
Santa's reindeer are: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen.
  1. (n) prancer
    a mettlesome or fiery horse
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Prancer
    A horse which prances. "Then came the captain . . . upon a brave prancer ."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) prancer
    A prancing horse.
Usage in the news

In his sleep studies, Dr Emmanuel Mignot has moved his focus to zebrafish after years of studying more cooperative narcoleptic dogs, like Prancer the Doberman pinscher. nytimes.com

Fancy Prancer Sells For $200,000 at F-T. bloodhorse.com

Fancy Prancer , hip 332, sold for $200,000 during the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale in Lexington. bloodhorse.com

Catch a rockin' live set of surf punk holidaycore from Dancer And Prancer . kexp.org

Prancer is a three year old male Lhasa Apso mix. kttu.com

There are no Dancers or Prancers or Comets or Vixens, no partridges in a pear tree or even nutcrackers dancing when you're sick in the hospital at Christmastime. q98fm.com

Usage in literature

What I want is a Prancer. "Put Yourself in His Place" by Charles Reade

Beware of a prancer behind! "Rookwood" by William Harrison Ainsworth

Now Dasher, now Dancer, now Prancer! "Five Mice in a Mouse-trap" by Laura E. Richards

I will now ride on the king's prancer as his bridesman to Sweden, to perform what I have neglected. "King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 3" by Bernhard Severin Ingemann

Usage in poetry
Take mountebanks, prancers,
Fops, fiddlers, and dancers,
So volatile, versatile, nimble; Pimps, parasites, spyers, Apostates, rogues, liars,
State coblers; and knights of the thimble.
'Speak the word, and, master mine,
As we charged on Tilly's line,
And his Walloon lancers,
Smiting through their midst we'll teach
Civil look and decent speech
To these boyish prancers!'