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Definition of Piaffe
1. Noun. A cadenced trot executed by the horse in one spot.
Definition of Piaffe
1. to perform a piaffer [v PIAFFED, PIAFFING, PIAFFES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piaffe
Literary usage of Piaffe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1896)
"This commenced with the piaffe when the two saluted each other, after which they
... A pause in cadence followed, a lofty piaffe; piaffe ..."
2. Horsemanship: Teaching the Art of Manage Riding ... and Breaking Horses by Thomas Gibbons (1825)
"EXPLANATIONS. from the calves of your legs; while with your hands you retain and
collect him, raise him before, sink him behind, and invite him to piaffe. ..."
3. Original Handbook for Riders: A Complete Guide to Modern Horsemanship by Martin Christinius Grimsgaard (1911)
"The piaffe with turning on haunches at the "piaffe-tempo," finally Halt on three
legs with the last lifted fore leg stretched horizontally. Jeu de Barre. ..."
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