Thesaurus / caparison
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At the sound the grooms, who were here and there in the press, hasted to find and caparison the horses of their lords.
JOAN OF THE SWORD HANDS(AMUEL) R(UTHERFORD) CROCKETTEqually apparent is the caparison of their horses; these carrying cavalry saddles, with peaks and cantles brass mounted.
THE LONE RANCHECAPTAIN MAYNE REIDAt to-morrow's dawn my esquire shall begin to burnish up my armour—and caparison my courser.
BIBLIOMANIA; OR BOOK-MADNESSTHOMAS FROGNALL DIBDINThe Caparison of the knightly steed appears to have been of five kinds.
ANCIENT ARMOUR AND WEAPONS IN EUROPEJOHN HEWITTAll the women kissed his hand as he rode by on his bay, with fiery red caparison.
WALTER PIETERSEMULTATULIThe gold twist means the small gilded chains drawn across the chest of a war-horse, as a part of his caparison.
ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH BALLADS, VOLUME VI (OF 8)VARIOUSUnarmed she goeth; yet her hands Strike deeper awe than steel-caparison'd bands.
DREAMS AND DAYS: POEMSGEORGE PARSONS LATHROPIn September she also gave him a quantity of cloth of gold, to make a caparison for his horse.
THE MYSTERY OF MARY STUARTANDREW LANGTo his practised eye, their caparison tells that they are intended only for a short excursion, not a journey.
THE FLAG OF DISTRESSMAYNE REIDMariposa said—respectful of the genius manifest in my caparison—that I looked "mos' ezzac'ly like a real, sure-'nough widder."
WHEN GRANDMAMMA WAS NEWMARION HARLANDWORDS RELATED TO CAPARISON
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