piaffe
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• noun (also piaffer) a movement performed in advanced dressage and classical riding, in which the horse executes a slow elevated trot without moving forward.
• verb [no obj.] (of a horse) perform a piaffe.
— origin mid 18th cent. : from French piaffer ‘to strut’.
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