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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."


verb
Caparison  v. t.  (past & past part. caparisoned; pres. part. caparisoning)  
1.
To cover with housings, as a horse; to harness or fit out with decorative trappings, as a horse. "The steeds, caparisoned with purple, stand."
2.
To adorn with rich dress; to dress. "I am caparisoned like a man."





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"Caparison" Quotes from Famous Books



... leather of Cordova, belted with the skin of the deer, and clasped with gold. And over this was a scarf of yellow satin wrought with green silk, the borders whereof were likewise green. And the green of the caparison of the horse, and of his rider, was as green as the leaves of the fir-tree, and the yellow was as yellow as the blossom of the broom. So fierce was the aspect of the knight, that fear seized upon them, and they began to flee. And the knight pursued ...
— The Mabinogion • Lady Charlotte Guest
... and abundance reigned in the palace; there were wise and clever ministers, virtuous and devoted courtiers, faithful and diligent servants. The spacious stables were filled with the most beautiful horses in the world, and coverts of rich caparison; but what most astonished strangers who came to admire them was to see, in the finest stall, a master ...
— The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault • Charles Perrault
... always attracted by Harrison When arrayed in his batting caparison; If others look worried He never gets flurried, But quite unconcernedly ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, July 21, 1920 • Various
... things were plainly the boast of the countryside. And the children expatiated on the costliness of these amphorae, which sell sometimes as high as thirty francs apiece; told me how they were carried on donkeys, one on either side of the saddle, a brave caparison in themselves; and how they were to be seen all over the district, and at the larger farms in great ...
— An Inland Voyage • Robert Louis Stevenson
... Come, bustle, bustle; caparison my horse;— Call up Lord Stanley, bid him bring his power: I will lead forth my soldiers to the plain, And thus my battle shall be ordered:— My foreward shall be drawn out all in length, Consisting equally ...
— The Life and Death of King Richard III • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]


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