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tripsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From trip + -some.

Meanings

1. (archaic) Characterised or marked by tripping (light stepping); light-footed; nimble
   • He hears the flageolet of Collinet, — he savours the garnished chickens of Gunter, — he beholds the tripsome feet of Lady Wilhelmine or Lady Clementina flit by him; [...] 1841, Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith, Bentley's Miscellany - Volume 7:
   • Not prurient Mars, / Pointing his toe through ten celestial bars — / Not young Apollo, beamily array'd / In tripsome guise for Juno's masquerade — / Not smartest Hermes, with his pinion girth, [...] 1804, Sir Theodore Martin, William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Alfred Crowquill, The Book of Ballads:
   • [...] she had never seen the triumph of a winner expand beyond the buckram simper of General Lorriston on dropping two halfcrowns into his spangled card-purse; or the tripsome sprightliness of Lady Lavinia Lisle's parting curtsey, [...] 1831, Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths, The Monthly Review - Volume 125:

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