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- noun Plural form of
prancer .
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Examples
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Unfortunately, pole slammers eventually had to become prancers, and revenge was sweet.
Tinikling baikinange 2009
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Unfortunately, pole slammers eventually had to become prancers, and revenge was sweet.
Archive 2009-12-01 baikinange 2009
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Words sprang from the fingers like prancers and dancers.
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Prussian Captain of Lancers (Those tight-laced, whiskered prancers)
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Maxil whirled me away among a sudden knot of drunken prancers, back toward the beverage table where we had last seen Stannall.
Restoree McCaffrey, Anne 1967
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She took in with all a mother's fondness his high-stepping prancers, his prosperous appearance, last but not least the entire absence of the Indian daughter-in-law.
The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail William H. Ryus
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How much consolation may I-- even I, 'cried Mr Mould,' have diffused among my fellow-creatures by means of my four long-tailed prancers, never harnessed under ten pund ten! '
Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841
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The queer fancy lads, who had hired hacks from the livery-stable keepers, were kicking up a dust, and here and there rolling from their prancers in their native soil; while the neck or nothing boys, with no prospect but a whereas before their eyes, were as heedless of their personal safety as they were of their Creditor's property.
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For all their storied past as co-prancers with mastodons, musk oxen are not huge animals.
NYT > Home Page By NATALIE ANGIER 2010
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If your festivities includes Village People-like prancers and flouncers performing a divinely exuberant choreography inspired by
Progressive Bloggers 2009
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