2. Verb. (third-person singular of caparison) ¹
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Definition of Caparisons
1. caparison [v] - See also: caparison
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caparisons
Literary usage of Caparisons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"We are told that the officer» of the king's mattem militaire not only wore
uniforms, but had the harness and caparisons of their horses covered with gold, ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
"... did to the splendid arms and caparisons of the chivalrous hero of the borders
... caparisons ..."
3. An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great by William Kelly (1851)
"... Indians — Handsome caparisons—Reason of onr Friend's Precipitate Return—Description
of the Sioux—Their Costume— Mode of betokening Friendship—Exhibit ..."
4. Memoirs of the Life and Adventures of Colonel Maceroni by Francis Maceroni (1838)
"also ferocious as one; fond of dressing up himself and his horse in garments and
caparisons of price, and riding forth from the lines in time of truce (! ..."
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