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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



... surprised. The 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 number ...
— An Inland Voyage • Robert Louis Stevenson
... led the way into an adjoining room. Barbarella ran to the piano, which was entirely enveloped in an immense antique caparison of red velvet embroidered with dull gold, and began to sing Bizet's Tarantelle dedicated to Christine Nilsson. Elena and Eva leaned over her to read the music, while Ludovico stood behind them smoking a cigarette. The Prince ...
— The Child of Pleasure • Gabriele D'Annunzio
... exclaimed: "God bless me! Is it possible that such an honorable company can say that this is not a basin but a helmet? Why, this is a thing that would astonish a whole university, however wise it might be! And if this basin is a helmet, then the pack-saddle must be a horse's caparison!" ...
— The Story of Don Quixote • Arvid Paulson, Clayton Edwards, and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... silk, and on his thigh was a gold-hilted sword, with a scabbard of new 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 ...
— The Mabinogion • Lady Charlotte Guest
... of Biskupice arrived. As they had all worked hard to free Zbyszko, they were pleased when they succeeded; therefore everyone of them gave him some present as a souvenir. The liberal Pan of Taczew gave him a beautiful large caparison embroidered with gold; Paszko, a Hungarian sword and ten grzywiens.[60] Then came Lis of Targowisko, Farurej and Krzon of Kozieglowy, with Marcin of Wrocimowice and finally Zyndram of ...
— The Knights of the Cross • Henryk Sienkiewicz


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