Definition of "piaffe" [piaffe]

• To perform the piaffer. (verb-intransitive)

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• "The horse also has a load of toys in his stall, all apparently spurring him to excel at piaffe and passage."
• "The sobriety of the scene was indeed somewhat enlivened by the presence of Sir Piercie Shafton, who, to show that his skill in the manege was not inferior to his other accomplishments, kept alternately pressing and checking his gay courser, forcing him to piaffe, to caracole, to passage, and to do all the other feats of the school, to the great annoyance of the Lord"
• "Cornelissen, who was second, had integrated an extremely difficult exercise into her freestyle routine: A half-pirouette in piaffe to the right followed directly by a half-pirouette to the left."