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Definition of Browband
1. Noun. Part of a horse's bridle that runs from just under one ear, across the forehead, to just under the other ear, preventing the bridle from sliding down. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Browband
1. a band designed to cross the forehead [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Browband
Literary usage of Browband
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"... or three for each ear; and other boxes of nose-studs and nose-rings of the
most beautiful workmanship; also a browband, or sort of half-coronet, ..."
2. Natives of Australia by Northcote Whitridge Thomas (1906)
"According to Lumholtz, they are sometimes carried with a browband, so that the
hands are free for other purposes. A small basket is also carried round the ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"Forehead-drop—An ornamental strap hanging down from the browband over the horse's
forehead. Four-in-Hand Club—Formed in April, 1856, ..."
4. Trooper and Redskin in the Far North-West: Recollections of Life in the by John G. Donkin (1889)
"... was of horse-hair, with beaded fringe upon the browband. I reckoned him up,
and I think—as he sat—he would be worth about five hundred dollars as a ..."
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