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Definition of Prauncing
1. praunce [v] - See also: praunce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prauncing
Literary usage of Prauncing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"... I heare [the dauncing] And a nimble morris prauncing;, The bagpipe and the
morris bells, That they are not farre hence vs tells; Come let vs all goe ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... Syr Charles hee herde the horses' feete A-prauncing onne the grounde: And just
before the officers His ..."
3. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"... vpon a monde or world, the horse prauncing forward with his forelegges as if
he would leape of, with this inscription, Non sufficit orbis, meaning, ..."
4. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"... the company of diners of his acquaintance, which Plutus performed accordingly.
Thither rode great Alexander vpon the back of prauncing Bucephalus, ..."
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