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piaffed

Variant of piaffe

noun

a movement in horsemanship in which the animal executes the motions of a slow trot in place

Origin: Fr < piaffer, to strut, paw the ground, prob. of echoic orig.

transitive verb piaffed, piaffing

to perform the piaffe

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