trippantとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From trip +‎ -ant, alteration of tripping, present participle of trip. Compare Scots trippand (“tripping”), present participle of trip (“to skip, go nimbly, trip”).

形容詞

trippant (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Represented as walking or trotting, usually with one of the forehooves lifted while the remaining three are on the ground.
   • 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry:

     [Borne by the late 1737.] Richard Davies, Esq. of Kent, 1833.] Davison, gu. a stag, trippant, or.

   • 1830, Thomas Robson, The British Herald, page 82:

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

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

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

派生語

• countertrippant
• trippant-counter

参照

• “trippant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.