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Definition of Destrier
1. a war horse [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Destrier
Literary usage of Destrier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Culture History in the Chanson de Geste by Wilson Drane Crabb (1898)
"It is sometimes used with destrier, sometimes alone. ... 2726 A ce mot broche le
destrier arragon 2793 Cf. .-827, 3126. ..."
2. A History of the Knights of Malta: Or The Order of the Hospital of St. John by Whitworth Porter (1858)
"THE destrier, OR WAR-HORSE. BEFORE entering into the history of the achievements
of the Order of St. John, it may be well to devote a short space to the ..."
3. Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne by Paul Hamilton Hayne (1882)
"The conflict joins; the hosts are hot; That gallant destrier " holds his own;"
... The destrier spurns the hands that guide, And full on the front of the ..."
4. Orlando innamorato di Bojardo: Orlando Furioso Di Ariosto by Matteo Maria Boiardo, Lodovico Ariosto (1834)
"Se 1'intricati rami e 1' aer fosco (Disse la Donna) a gli occhi non contende,
Baiardo é quel destrier ch' in mezo il bosco Con tal rumor la chiusa via si ..."
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