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Piaffer vs Piaffe - What's the difference?

piaffer | piaffe |

As nouns the difference between piaffer and piaffe

is that piaffer is a dressage movement in which a horse trots in a stationary position while using high lifting of the legs while piaffe is (dressage) a calm, composed, elevated trot in place.

As a verb piaffe is

(archaic|rare) to strut pretentiously, to parade about.

piaffer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A dressage movement in which a horse trots in a stationary position while using high lifting of the legs.
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    piaffe

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dressage) A calm, composed, elevated trot in place.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic, rare) To strut pretentiously, to parade about.
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    • , year= 1593 , year_published= 1968 , author= John Eliot , by= , title= Ortho-epia Gallica: Eliots fruits for the French , url= http://books.google.com/books?ei=tP9uUd-3LsbK0AGy7IGYCg&id=DrhZAAAAMAAJ&dq=Ortho-epia+Gallica&q=piaffed
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    • , original= , chapter= , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Scolar P. , location= , editor= , volume= , page= A3 , passage= Which loue you must know was ingendered in the sweet soile of Fraunce, where I piaffed like a bon companion, with a steele at my girdle, till the Friars (a canker of the curssed Covent) fell to drawing of naked knives, and kild indeed the good kind Henrie of Fraunce, the more was the pittie. }}
  • To trot a horse with a high, slow, step, lifting the feet but without moving forward significantly.
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    • , year= 1761 (1778) , year_published= 1905 , author= , by= Earl of Pembroke , title= A new English dictionary on historical principles: founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society, Volume 7, Part 2 , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=AnBXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA813 , original= Mil. Equitation , chapter= , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Clarendon Press , location= Oxford , editor= James A. H. Murray , volume= , page= 813 , passage= To piaffe in backing is rather too much to be expected in the hurry which [etc.]. }}
  • To ride a horse in this way.
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    • , year= 1814 , year_published= 2008 , author= , by= , title= Waverley , url= http://books.google.com/books?ei=3wJvUfj6Hqjk0QHo2ICABQ&id=x-RoAAAAMAAJ&dq=piaffed&q=piaffed
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    • , original= , chapter= , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Edinburgh University Press , location= , editor= Peter Garside , volume= 1 of Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels , page= 289 , passage= Accordingly he piaffed away in high spirits and confidence to the head of Fergus's regiment, although understanding not a word of Gaelic, and very little English. }}