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Caparison   Listen
noun
Caparison  n.  
1.
An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, especially when decorative. "Their horses clothed with rich caparison."
2.
Gay or rich clothing. "My heart groans beneath the gay caparison."





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"Caparison" Quotes from Famous Books



... idea of Charley's sturdy little figure in such a grotesque caparison. He then went on with the history of the chair, and told the children, that, in 1730, King George the Second appointed Jonathan Belcher to be governor of Massachusetts, in place of the deceased Governor Burnet. Mr. Belcher was a native of the province, ...
— True Stories from History and Biography • Nathaniel Hawthorne


Words linked to "Caparison" :   dress up, trapping, ornament, stable gear, tack, barde, grace, decorate


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