caparison
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The black motif would have also been on the prince's surcoat worn over his armour, and on the horse's caparison.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2014
In Kollum, a group calling itself the Pooram-Perunaal Celebration Committee was denied a permit to march 52 elephants in protest; the members dressed a bulldozer in a gold-plated caparison and marched with that instead.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2012
This time Yerby's missile is dressed in full medieval caparison.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hope wore it on NBC-TV's quiz show, Play Your Hunch, where contestants guessed about the number of constellations in her high-carat caparison.
From Time Magazine Archive
“A horse!” shouted the Notary, “I will stake a horse with his caparison; and I will further covenant before the local court, that I deposit this ring as a reward for our arbitrator, the Judge.”
From Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by George Rapall Noyes
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